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Ships will embark for Edom from Eretz Israel, and Israel will announce: “Who is for us, and who is for Edom?” For scripture states: Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me unto Edom…

And it came to pass, when Naphtali grew elderly and arrived at a good old age and also reached the age of power and passed the stage where one stoops [see m. Avot 5:21], he began to issue his final…

Rabbi Ishmael purified himself through ritual immersion. He wrapped himself in his prayer shawl and in his phylacteries and distinctly pronounced the Ineffable Name of the Lord. Immediately, a wind…

When he saw the kingdom of Ishmael that was coming, he began to say: “Was it not enough, what the wicked kingdom of Edom did to us, but we must have the kingdom of Ishmael too?” At once Metatron the…

Ben Sira’s mother made clothes and sold them and brought him bread, fatty meat, and aged wine, and so supported him for one year. At the year’s end, he said to her, “Take me to the synagogue.” She…

Furthermore, I saw in my dream that all of us—all twelve tribes—were standing with Jacob our father on the seashore. Behold! A large ship was sailing on the sea with nobody on it. Our father said to…