Good Teaching: On Genesis and Exodus
God created the man in his own image . . . male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)
Male and female He created them—Our Rabbis, of blessed memory, said that the first human was created “two-faced” [one side male, the other female] . . . and therefore God says, I shall make a helpmate beside him (Genesis 2:18), implying that until that…
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Commentary: On the Song of Songs
On Song of Songs 1:1, 5, 2:2, 5, 7, 10, 3:5
Let the one who understands use his powers of discernment and set his heart to understanding the poetic language of the book, to study and explain its meaning according to the context…
Commentary: On Exodus 3:15
Commentary on Exodus 3:15
Know that there are three worlds. One of them is the lower [world] and it has many levels, although three include [all of] them. One is that of the metals, of which there are seven, corresponding to…
Letter on the Sabbath
It was mid Friday night, the fourteenth day of the month of Tevet, in the year 4919 [1159—Ed.], I, Abraham the Spaniard, known as “Ibn Ezra,” was in one of the cities of the island that is called…
The Divulgence of Mysteries and the Appearance of Lights (Commentary on the Song of Songs)
Inkishāf al-asrār wa-ṭuhūẓ al-anwār, on Song of Songs 2:16
We intend to elucidate the [inner meanings of the verses in Song of Songs beyond the content] arrived at by our sages. Heaven forbid that he [the author] had in mind lust, mischief, or…
Commentary: On Job
On Job 1:6-7
I ask redemption from the awesome God,
but to those who anger him, He will surely be an enemy [ye’eyov ayov].
May He who birthed me [i.e., God; see Psalms 22:10] help Moses Kimḥi,
who begins to…
Commentary: On Genesis
On Genesis 18:2, 22:8
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and he saw three men standing over against him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed down to the earth, [and said . . . ] (Genesis 18:2…