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Shir HaShirim Rabbah 2.11

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English · The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022)

“For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone” (Song of Songs 2:11). “For, behold, the winter is past,” these are the four hundred years that were decreed upon our ancestors in Egypt. “The rain is over and gone,” these are the two hundred and ten years. Is the rain not identical to the winter? Rabbi Tanḥuma said: The primary trouble [of the winter] is the rain. Similarly, the main enslavement of Israel was eighty-six years, from the time Miriam was born. <Explanatory note: This is why she was named Miriam, because it is stated: “They embittered [vaymareru] their lives” (Exodus 1:14), as Miriam is an expression of bitterness [maror]>.

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English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English translation: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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