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  • <p>Rambam and Ralbag attempt to minimize the supernatural events of Tanakh, suggesting that Hashem attempts to preserve natural order as much as possi <p>The number of seemingly supernatural phenomena described in Tanakh is minimized, either by suggesting that the stories should not be read lite
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  • ...an">About R. David Zvi Hoffmann</a></multilink> #2,<fn>See his comments to Devarim 12.&#160; In his commentary on Vayikra 3 and 17, R. Hoffmann also suggests ...in verse 14) and once more in <a href="Devarim12-16-25" data-aht="source">Devarim 12:23</a>, supporting the idea that Torah views this as a central component
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  • ...e left. Outside of our phrase, the verb only appears in one other place in Tanakh, Tehillim 69:16, where it seems to mean to close or stop.<br/>In contrast t ...ִים, identified as Yericho.<fn>See <a href="Devarim34-3" data-aht="source">Devarim 34:3</a> and <a href="DivreiHaYamimII28-15" data-aht="source">Divrei HaYami
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  • ...a href="IbnEzraEstherSecondVersion2-10" data-aht="source">Esther Version B 2:10</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn ...>Radak</a><a href="RadakMelakhimI11-1-2" data-aht="source">Melakhim I 11:1-2</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Kimc
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  • ...endants of Rachel.<fn>It appears from the words "אִישׁ יְמִינִי" in Esther 2:5 that Mordechai hails from the tribe of Binyamin.</fn></li> ...60; Although the individual words קצף and סָרִיס come up multiple times in Tanakh, they appear together only in these two cases and in Esther 1:12. In both o
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  • ...also Abarbanel Devarim 28 for his interpretation of the parallel verse in Devarim 28:69.</fn></li> ...the most difficult laws could help ensure observance of the rest.&#160; In Devarim, once the whole Torah was given, Hashem naturally made a covenant on all.</
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  • ...barbanel </a><a href="AbarbanelBemidbar22-2" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 22:2</a><a href="AbarbanelBemidbar22-7" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 22:7</a><a hr ...ould expect Bilam to have an impeccable character.&#160; See&#160;<a href="2" data-aht="subpage">Approaches</a> for more on Rambam's view of Bilam.</fn>
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  • ...ress to Shimon and Levi, commentators mine the various episodes throughout Tanakh in which the two tribes play a part, searching for which stories best fit Y ...e prooftext, the phrase "וְאָרוֹתִי אֶת בִּרְכוֹתֵיכֶם"&#160; in Malakhi 2:2.&#160; As it is hard to understand what it would mean to "curse a blessing,
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  • ...or differing literary genres. Even when two units do not overlap in time, Tanakh might prefer to arrange certain units thematically, grouping together simil <p>Tanakh will often prefer thematic ordering over strict chronology, juxtaposing rel
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  • ...Shemot 7:25</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot10-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:1-2</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzchak Aba ...rce">Shemot 10:1</a><a href="NetzivShemot10-2" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:2</a><a href="NetzivShemot11-7" data-aht="source">Shemot 11:7</a><a href="Net
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  • ...1" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiDevarim10-1" data-aht="source">Devarim 10:1</a><a href="R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)" data-aht="parshan">About R. <point><b>Was this forbidden?</b> There are many verses in Tanakh which imply that it is permitted to take the ark to battle,<fn>For example,
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  • ...ce">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit2-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 2:1</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit3-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 3:1</a><a hr ...2:17</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit2-18" data-aht="source">Bereshit 2:18</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit3-5-17" data-aht="source">Bereshit 3
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  • ...Devarim 22:6</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim32Introduction" data-aht="source">Devarim 32 Introduction</a><a href="NachalatAvotMishnaAvot1-3" data-aht="source">Na ...source">Devarim 28</a> or&#160;<a href="Devarim29-21-27" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:21-27</a>.&#160; As these include agricultural blessings, promises of vi
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  • ...60; He explicitly connects this to the role given to the trumpets in verse 2, "לְמִקְרָא הָעֵדָה".&#160; This suggests that he might be ...s sentence serves as a heading for all of verses 2-10, and not just verses 2-7.&#160; In each of the four cases mentioned in the unit (and not just the
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  • ...s commentaries on Yeshayahu, Yechezkel, and Terei Asar.&#160; Our study of Tanakh and Parshanut would be immeasurably poorer if not for our good fortune that ...תָּשֹׁלּוּ" found in Rut 2:16.<fn>Cf. Rashi, Rashbam, and Ibn Ezra on Rut 2:16 who interpret the phrase differently.</fn></li>
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  • ...ty with the contemporary usage of a word influences the way one interprets Tanakh, as one might not recognize that a word's definition might have evolved, be ...are several words whose meaning might have changed from one period within Tanakh to another:</p>
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  • ...t="source">Bemidbar 22:23</a><a href="RambanDevarim18-9" data-aht="source">Devarim 18:9-12</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="pa <point><b>Parallel cases</b> – There are many stories in Tanakh which suggest that there is real power in blessings/ curses or other magica
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  • ...th the Givonites (Yehoshua 9), this is understood to be an honest mistake. Tanakh blames the people for not asking Hashem before breaking bread with them ("� ...urce">Midrash HaGadol</a><a href="MidrashHaGadolDevarim" data-aht="source">Devarim</a><a href="Midrash HaGadol" data-aht="parshan">About Midrash HaGadol</a></
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  • ...ְאַבְּדָם"&#8206;.<fn>All the variations of this position must assume that Tanakh is preserving the ambiguity of the original Persian in which Haman would ha ...h, is also one of destruction: "לְהַאֲבִיד אֶתְכֶם וּלְהַשְׁמִיד אֶתְכֶם" (Devarim 28:63).<br/> Another variation of this general approach is raised by the Oh
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  • ...albagBereshit18P1" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 18:1,2-8,9-10,13-14,16,17-19,20-21,22,33</a><a href="RalbagBereshit19P27" data-aht ..., ואח"כ נראה אליו השם.</fn> and, in reality, the story of the angels in 18:2-16 preceded the revelation.&#160; Ralbag suggests that the story of the vis
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