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  • ...text, as evidenced by dates, relative ages, or even geographical data.<fn>Tanakh often traces people's travels, so knowing where an event took place might a ...of people's relative ages as provided by genealogy lists, time markers,<fn>Tanakh will sometimes date an event to a certain year in an individual's life.&#16
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  • ...0</a><a href="YefetbElitheKaraiteVayikra23" data-aht="source">Yefet b. Eli Vayikra 23</a><a href="LevibYefettheKaraitetheKaraiteSeferHamitzvot2p404" data-aht= ...a 23:3, and the opinion below which takes this understanding in Vayikra 23:15 as well.&#160; See, though, Salmon b. Yerucham and Aharon b. Yosef who argu
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  • ...eaks of the current exile. See <a href="Vayikra26-34-35" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:34-35</a> which speaks of the exile being caused by non-observance of "S .../multilink>,&#160;Y. Ben-Ze'ev <fn>Y. Ben-Ze'ev, "'הנלוים אל ה" Beit Mikra 15:2 (1970): 180-186.</fn></mekorot>
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  • ...-aht="source">Ran</a><a href="RanBereshit15-14" data-aht="source">Bereshit 15:14</a><a href="R. Nissim Gerondi (Ran)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Nissim ...e Akeidah and Abarbanel make this same point about several other verses in Tanakh which describe the descent to Egypt as initiated by Yaakov and his family a
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  • ...ily form, physically seeing Hashem is impossible. Any visions of Hashem in Tanakh must be understood either to have taken place in a prophetic dream (where m ...ht="source">Vayikra 9:23</a><a href="RashbamVayikra16-2" data-aht="source">Vayikra 16:2</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About R.
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  • <p>Tanakh, like many written works, is filled with repetitions. Sometimes verses repe <p>Some cases of repetition in Tanakh might be accounted for by the principle commonly known as a "כלל ופר�
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  • ...ash? Which of these are attested to in Torah and which only in the rest of Tanakh?</p> ...a> and <a href="DivreiHaYamimI15-11-12" data-aht="source">Divrei HaYamim I 15:11-12</a>.</fn> are ambiguous, mentioning both the priests and Levites. How
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  • ...">Vayikra Toalot 1:4</a><a href="RalbagVayikraToalot4-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra Toalot 4:1</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="p ...0" data-aht="source">32:20</a> or <a href="Vayikra26-21" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:21</a>.</fn>&#160;&#160; Ramban adds that the word takes the specific co
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  • <content>Commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud, Sifrut Debei Rashi</content> <li><b>Biblical commentaries</b> – Rashi wrote commentaries on all of Tanakh.</li>
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  • ...aht="source">Shemot 32:27</a><a href="NetzivVayikra10-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:3</a><a href="NetzivBemidbar16-417" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 16:4, 17< ...<a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot16-121523" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:12, 15, 23</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Zv
    42 KB (6,192 words) - 05:46, 20 August 2019
  • ...ism and atheism, but it is doubtful whether atheism existed in the time of Tanakh.</fn></li> ...yikra 24:19</a><a href="HoilMosheBemidbar15-23" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 15:23</a><a href="HoilMosheBemidbar30-2" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 30:2</a><a
    49 KB (7,564 words) - 11:34, 28 January 2023
  • ...d their bringing of an unauthorized offering or flame.&#160; An opinion in Vayikra Rabbah, in contrast, suggests that Nadav and Avihu suffered a vicarious pun ...aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra10-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:1</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzcha
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  • ...sts referred to by the Mishna.&#160; Some include only events mentioned in Tanakh, while others include also events culled from the Midrash. For some example ...his nephew Lot from captivity. Many suggest that the story was included in Tanakh since Avraham's conduct in war was worthy of emulation: [See <a href="Battl
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  • ...-aht="source">Shemot 29:14</a> and <a href="Vayikra4-11" data-aht="source">Vayikra 4:11</a>.</fn>&#160; The ensuing odor led the servants to originally assume ...onatan</a><a href="TargumYonatanShofetim3-15" data-aht="source">Shofetim 3:15</a><a href="Targum Yonatan (Neviim)" data-aht="parshan">About Targum Yonata
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  • <content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...b>Biblical commentaries</b> – Rashbam wrote a commentary on most or all of Tanakh. See below regarding his Torah commentary. Commentaries of Rashbam on Tehil
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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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  • ...e punishment</b> – These commentators try to explain away all the cases in Tanakh where there seems to be collective punishment by suggesting that in each in ...ing of any children in Sedom, or other punitive plagues described later in Tanakh.</fn>&#160; For a variety of approaches to this principle see <a href="Are
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  • ...rce">Lekach Tov</a><a href="LekachTovShemot15-25" data-aht="source">Shemot 15:25</a><a href="R. Toviah b. Eliezer (Lekach Tov)" data-aht="parshan">About ...ar Zekeinim</a><a href="HadarZekeinimShemot15-25" data-aht="source">Shemot 15:25</a><a href="Hadar Zekeinim" data-aht="parshan">About Hadar Zekeinim</a><
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  • ...Vayikra 26:3</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim4-15" data-aht="source">Devarim 4:15</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim22-6" data-aht="source">Devarim 22:6</a><a href ...source">Shemot 15:26</a>,&#160; <a href="Vayikra26-3-12" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26</a>,&#160;<a href="Devarim7-11-16" data-aht="source">Devarim 7:11-16</a>
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  • ...e">Devarim 25</a><a href="AbarbanelShemuelI15" data-aht="source">Shemuel I 15</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzchak Aba ...t="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalShemot1-15" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:15</a><a href="ShadalShemot17-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:14</a><a href="S
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