The Midrash Tells Children. The Book of Shemot

The Midrash (explanations of our sages) is a story related to the sacred books, their heroes and plots, but the Midrash tells about what is absent in these books. Absent — but restored from other places in the Torah, other texts, and oral tradition. Using the full extent of knowledge and the rules of text interpretation, our sages arrive at a new, deeper, often unexpected understanding of what seems to have been known and studied for a long time. In the proposed series of books "The Midrash Tells Children", some Midrashim are presented for each weekly Torah portion. The first volume is dedicated to the Book of Bereshit. Young readers will learn about the creation of the world and the story of the covenant between the Almighty and Abraham, about Abraham's son Isaac and his grandson Jacob, about the twelve tribes of Israel and their life in Egypt, about the indissolubility of the covenant between the Almighty and the sons of Israel.