מִדְרָשׁ רַבָּה The Midrash Rabbah

The great collections of aggadah on the Torah and the five megillot — 10 books, 266 chapters, 3,333 sections

The Midrash Rabbah is aggadah — the sages' own readings of Scripture: homily, parable and interpretation. It is not a code of law and not the plain sense of the verse; it is how the tradition has always heard them.

Bereshit Rabbah The oldest of the Rabbah collections — creation, the avot, and the tradition's readings of them100 parashot · 1,036 sections Shemot Rabbah Egypt, the Exodus and Sinai — slavery, redemption and the giving of the Torah52 parashot · 464 sections Vayikra Rabbah Homilies on Vayikra — sacrifice, purity and holiness read as lessons for a life37 parashot · 330 sections Bamidbar Rabbah The wilderness years — the camp, the spies, Korach, and Bilam23 parashot · 444 sections Devarim Rabbah Homilies on Moshe's last addresses — teshuvah, Torah, and his death11 parashot · 161 sections Shir HaShirim Rabbah The Song of Songs read as the love of God and Israel, verse by verse8 chapters · 264 sections Ruth Rabbah Ruth and Naomi — chesed, conversion, and the line that leads to David8 parashot · 81 sections Eichah Rabbah The churban mourned and answered — Eichah chapter by chapter5 chapters · 152 sections Kohelet Rabbah Kohelet's questions taken up verse by verse — toil, wisdom, and what endures12 chapters · 271 sections Esther Rabbah The megillah expounded — Achashverosh's feast to Haman's fall10 parashot · 130 sections

The Hebrew is the complete Midrash Rabbah of the TE edition, one edition across all ten books, via Sefaria — public domain by the edition’s own identity, with each book’s catalogue record kept as published. The English is the Sefaria Midrash Rabbah of 2022, complete and section for section beside the Hebrew (CC BY). 7 numbered sections are empty in the edition itself — Esther Rabbah 1:9 and 7:14–18, and Devarim Rabbah 2:27 — and each says so at its own address rather than being skipped.