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The Midrash is called "Bat Shlomo in the Tower". According to a number of sites online, it comes from Buber's Introduction to Ktav Yad Gimel of Midrash Tanchuma Hakadum V'Hayashan1, 1885 Edition. … in general, and about the old Midrash Tanchuma in particular. …

Though both describe the last days/moments of Moshe's life, Mota Musa certainly isn't the same as Petirat Moshe. Hebrew and English translations are available here. In short, in Mota Musa, Moshe has a …

On the grapes - as I said, seeds take longer to grow than saplings. Noach probably fully understood in what mental state he will be in when he exits the ark: In deep, deep depression: His whole world …

Lerner, 'The Works of Aggadic Midrash and the Esther Midrashim', in: S. … (see pp. 189-193) Midrash Panim Acherim is a slight misnomer. …

Although Neubauer thought that this midrash was both in the hands of the Abarbanel and, l'havdil, Raymond Martini, and that this midrash should be attributed to the amorah Rabbah, Joseph Fitzmyer argued … was the same midrash known as "Midrash Rabbah Rabbati", quoted or paraphrased several times by Rabbi Yehudah Gedalyah. …

And then the midrash moves to discussing Elijah's four names. 1 Note that the linked printed edition which features the Etz Yosef has the same scribal error; the Etz Yosef himself used a different edition …

It seems to be a reference to Tanchuma Buber Toldot 18: אמר ר' יוסי אמר הקב"ה פתחי לי פתח כחודה של מחט, ואני פותח לך [פתח] שיהו אוהלות (ובצור צירות) [וכצוצריות] נכנסין בו. R. Jose said: The Holy One …

Shimon Fogel in Kovetz Beit Aharon V'Yisrael suggests that when Rav Huna the son of Rav Yehoshua said "It is merely that vilon, one of the firmaments, rips and furls and the light of the next firmamen …

I found a quote from Yesodot Hachinuch pt. 2 (I don't know how that translates into the English version of the collected writings): "על האם להיות 'חוה' לילדה, דהיינו לדובב אליו ולשוחח עמו, שכן היל …

I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Prof. Yehoshua Meir Grintz wrote in his essay in Hebrew "The long road home of the last of the Chashmonaim": "Matityah bar Yehudah is the …

Here's the first version (some of the punctuation is based on Eisenstein's edition) (some question marks in-between for words I wasn't sure how to translate): “This is none other than the house of Go …

As pointed out in the comments, the identification of the tree is debated. However, as Prof. Zohar Amar, who specializes in the natural history of ancient times, and in particular, the identification …

Conder wrote: "Beror-Hail (Midrash Koheleth vii, 7), the place to which Rabbi Johanan retired when the younger Gamaliel took charge of the school at Jamnia. …

Meaning that in his view, this bit was added in by a later commentator and wasn't part of the original midrash. Dr. … Translation: "...and it also appears that the entire story in the midrash is late...and were it an old midrash it should have been said "and on him it is said" not "and our sages said on him"...and sensed …

A couple of years ago I heard a vort based on a midrash. … Does anyone know the source of this midrash? …