ecclesiastes rabbah造句

• I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a free online English translation of Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah.
• In Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1 : 24, written in the 700s, a debate about a much less controversial topic results in the arrest of the Jew engaging in the debate.
• Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah states that the rulers of some non-Jewish nations were experts in astrology, and that King Solomon too had expertise in this realm . ( 7 : 23 no . 1)
• Separated from his colleagues, his faculties became stunted, and he is said to have completely forgotten all he had ever learned ( " Avot of Rabbi Natan " xiv . 6; " Ecclesiastes Rabbah " vii . 7 ).
• Joshua devoted much of his time to furthering the public welfare . ( Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7 : 7 . ) His wealth, and his alliance to the patriarchal family through the marriage of his son Joseph ( Babylonian Talmud Kiddushin 33b ), must have added to his authority.
• He is said to have attained a very advanced age ( more than 120 years according to " Seder Olam "; 130 according to " Sefer Yuchasin "; while Ecclesiastes Rabbah viii . 10 holds that the son ( Jonah ) of the Zarephath widow never died ).
• For example, his treatise indicates that besides the Babylonian Talmud ( which, in the nature of things, was his chief authority ) he made frequent use of the Yerushalmi, and of Palestinian Midrashim, Leviticus Rabbah, Ecclesiastes Rabbah, and Tan % uma, all of which at this time were quite unknown in Babylonia ( indeed, even Saadia Gaon, almost two hundred years later, knew comparatively little of them ).
• Then the Rabbi took Luz, a small bone of the spine, and immersed it in water, but it was not softened; he put it into the fire, but it was not consumed; he put it into a mill, but it could not be pounded; he placed it upon an anvil and struck it with a hammer, but the anvil split and the hammer was broken . ( Ecclesiastes Rabbah xii / Genesis Rabbah xviii ).
• Instead, he highlights the contrast between the accounts in the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud, noting that the Jerusalem Talmud " makes no mention of Elisha's dualism; but it relates that in the critical period following the Shabbat " 32b; " Ecclesiastes Rabbah " 5 : 5 ) " flesh " here means children  spiritual children, pupils  whom Elisha killed with his mouth by luring them from the study of the Torah ."