{ "language": "en", "title": "Bamidbar Rabbah", "versionSource": "http://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Ecology-Image-More-Than-Human-World/dp/1107081335 ", "versionTitle": "Rabbi Dr. David Mevorach Seidenberg, from \"Kabbalah and Ecology\"", "status": "locked", "versionTitleInHebrew": "רבי וד״ר דוד מבורך סיידנברג, מתוך ״קבלה ואקולוגיה״", "shortVersionTitle": "Rabbi Dr. David Mevorach Seidenberg, 2015", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isBaseText": false, "isSource": false, "direction": "ltr", "heTitle": "במדבר רבה", "categories": [ "Midrash", "Aggadah", "Midrash Rabbah" ], "text": [ [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [ "", "", "", "", "", "... You find [that] from the beginning of the creation of the world the Shekhinah rested/shartah among the lower ones..." ], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "... [T]he Holy One has pity on the honor of the creatures/b’riyot (here meaning “people”) and knows their needs. And He shut the mouth of the beast/b’heimah, for if she would speak, they could not make her serve or stand up to her /bah, for [there was] this silent one from the animals (the ass) and this wise one from the sages (Bil`am) – [and] when she spoke he could not stand up to her." ] ], "sectionNames": [ "Chapter", "Paragraph" ] }