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- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 36</h1> ...(Bereshit 36:6-8) parallels the separations of other sets of relatives in Tanakh.</p>3 KB (537 words) - 08:01, 19 February 2024
- ...dbar 11:1), sits (Yeshayhu 6:1), stands (Shemot 17:6), remembers (Bereshit 8:1), and sleeps (Tehillim 78:65).</fn><sup><br/></sup></p> <p>Perhaps the most explicit verse is Bereshit 1:26-27:</p>3 KB (380 words) - 13:47, 24 July 2019
- ...#160;– See, for instance, the word's usage in Shemot 4:16, 7:1, 21:6, 22:7-8, and 22:27, Shemuel I 2:25, Tehillim 82:1</li> ...a> (שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה), Y.   See also the phrase  "לאל ידם" in Bereshit 31:29 and Mikhah 2:1 which means the power of their hands.</li>2 KB (326 words) - 10:57, 24 October 2020
- <li>How does Tanakh refer to the respective fathers-in-law of the husband and wife? <li>What son-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships are described in Tanakh?3 KB (498 words) - 12:51, 25 January 2015
- <li>How does Tanakh refer to the respective fathers-in-law of the husband and wife? <li>What son-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships are described in Tanakh?3 KB (499 words) - 06:30, 26 January 2015
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 30</h1> <li>In verse 8, when naming Naftali, Rachel says, "mighty struggles i have struggled with4 KB (544 words) - 06:58, 6 July 2023
- ...ns of two" ; hence the Hebrew term "שניים שהם אחד" (two which are one). In Tanakh there are several phrases which have been understood by some to be a hendia <category>Proposed Hendiadys in Tanakh7 KB (929 words) - 23:49, 2 May 2023
- ...trl-Click on מצרים (on phones, simply tap) to display all of the verses in Tanakh in which the entry appears in the Freestanding Concordance (click on <a hre ...'s click the תרשים or Graph tab to easily see the diffusion of the word in Tanakh (click on <a href="Concordance/Mitzrayim/MitzrayimGraph.jpg" data-aht="file3 KB (426 words) - 22:07, 18 April 2017
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 44</h1> ...lf of Binyamin,<fn>See Daa't Mikra on Bereshit 44:18 who notes this.</fn> (Bereshit 44:18) and only in one other story.<fn>See Bemidbar 32:16, where Reuven and7 KB (1,130 words) - 08:05, 19 February 2024
- ...-law, and not her husband) – see <a href="Bereshit38-11" data-aht="source">Bereshit 38:11,16,24,</a> <a href="Vayikra18-15" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:15</a> ...us is on the relationship between son-in-law and father-in-law because, in Tanakh, the contracting of a marital relationship is with the father of the bride4 KB (516 words) - 06:08, 13 January 2015
- <content>Commentaries on Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Devarim, ספר מלמד להועיל, ראיות מכר� ...nvited R. D"Z Hoffmann to join the faculty and teach Talmud, Halakhah, and Tanakh.</li>7 KB (1,042 words) - 18:04, 14 February 2015
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 42</h1> <p><a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/42/1/42/38">Tanakh Lab </a>demonstrates that the word “אח” is the word that appears with5 KB (788 words) - 13:33, 11 April 2024
- ...h section focuses on a number of individual points which serve as foils to Bereshit and can provoke discussion and thought.</p> ...ife." Is there any basis for this idea in the Biblical text? According to Bereshit, "וְיִשְׂרָאֵל אָהַב אֶת יוֹסֵף מִכָּל בָ8 KB (1,253 words) - 17:00, 4 July 2019
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9</h1> <p>One of the most prominent literary conventions in Tanakh is the use of chiastic structure (a-b-c-b-a). Chiastic structure serves to9 KB (810 words) - 23:51, 27 June 2023
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 18</h1> <p>There are several instances in Tanakh in which Hashem promises a child to a childless parent (as He promises Avra7 KB (1,114 words) - 07:46, 19 February 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 33</h1> ...y, despite his fears, Esav does in fact refer to Yaakov as "my brother" in Bereshit 33:9.  See Rashbam that throughout the story Esav had no evil intent;9 KB (1,254 words) - 07:41, 20 August 2023
- <p>Perhaps surprisingly, a comparison of Hashem's revelation to Avraham in Bereshit 18 reveals much in common with Hashem's revelation to Moshe after the sin o ...ereshit 18.  [In the <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/18/1/18/33">Lab</a> click on the Torah icon to find a list of linguisticall5 KB (789 words) - 02:48, 1 January 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 32</h1> ...y, despite his fears, Esav does in fact refer to Yaakov as "my brother" in Bereshit 33:9.  See Rashbam that throughout the story Esav had no evil intent;9 KB (1,215 words) - 07:40, 20 August 2023
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 3</h1> ...0;– Use the concordance to see how the word and phrase are used throughout Tanakh.</p>14 KB (2,140 words) - 10:13, 20 September 2023
- ...vraham and Iyyov were two of the most devout believers in God to appear in Tanakh, and that both managed to preserve their faith despite many trials and hard ...m and Iyyov are tested by Hashem (<a href="Bereshit22-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22</a> and <a href="Iyyov1-18" data-aht="source">Iyyov 1</a>), and each of12 KB (1,724 words) - 12:33, 24 July 2019
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 1</h1> <category name="Bereshit 1 and 2">12 KB (1,908 words) - 06:57, 11 April 2024
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 22</h1> ...heless, an interesting contrast can be found between Bereshit 22:17-18 and Bereshit 3:16-17.  While Avraham is told that his progeny will multiply, Chavva12 KB (1,904 words) - 08:39, 11 April 2024
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 12</h1> <p>There are several stories in Sefer Bereshit in which a wife passes herself off as a sister.</p>10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:33, 17 March 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9</h1> ...=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjpieDdp96AAxX0g_0HHdakD2QQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fw15 KB (1,716 words) - 13:17, 11 April 2024
- ...-4" data-aht="source">Shofetim 19:4,7,9</a>. חֹתֶנֶת appears only once in Tanakh – <a href="Devarim27-23" data-aht="source">Devarim 27:23</a>.</li> <li>Etymology – "חֹתֵן" is used in Tanakh to refer to the father of the wife with whom the <a href="Dictionary:חָת6 KB (836 words) - 08:18, 20 January 2015
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 39</h1> <li>Bereshit 39 begins (verses 2-5) and ends (verses 21-23) with statements that God was10 KB (1,499 words) - 13:31, 11 April 2024
- <h2>Gentiles in Tanakh</h2> ...ish or proto-Jewish.<fn>Such as Malkizedek (Bereshit Rabbah 56:10), Tamar (Bereshit Rabbah 85:10), and the midwives of Egypt (Bavli Sotah 11b).</fn> See <a hr4 KB (705 words) - 12:51, 25 January 2015
- <p>Bereshit 32 describes Yaakov's preparations for his encounter with Esav.  After <q xml:lang="en">(8) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the peopl6 KB (778 words) - 02:47, 1 December 2015
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 22</h1> ...envelope with the words “<span style="color: #0000ff;">לֶךְ לְךָ</span>” (Bereshit 22:2) that introduce his last test (Akeidat Yitzchak).</li>12 KB (1,673 words) - 13:23, 11 April 2024
- Both the story of the Flood in Bereshit 6-8 and the Book of Yonah revolve around Hashem's decision to destroy a group o ...– In both books, it is the crime of violence which leads to the decree. In Bereshit we read, "כִּי מָלְאָה הָאָרֶץ חָמָס", and in Yonah,6 KB (942 words) - 21:34, 23 October 2022
- The Book of Shemuel is replete with parallels to the Book of Bereshit.  One of the most blatant of these is the parallel between the story o <li><b>Infertility</b> – Both Rachel (Bereshit 29:21, 30:1) and Channah (Shemuel I 1:2,5,6) are barren.</li>9 KB (1,317 words) - 03:16, 23 September 2019
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 49</h1> <p>There are many examples of wordplay in Yaakov's blessings to his sons in Bereshit 49, especially in reference to the sons' names:</p>8 KB (995 words) - 08:05, 20 August 2023
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 23</h1> ...ural units of the chapter and their relationship, see <a href="Structure – Bereshit 23" data-aht="page">Structure</a>.--></p>13 KB (1,977 words) - 06:28, 13 October 2023
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 11</h1> ...found their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' (8) So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the ear12 KB (1,484 words) - 00:50, 5 October 2023
- ...Rashbam</a><a href="RashbamBereshit32-7-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:7-8</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Shemu <li>Rashbam is consistent throughout his commentary on Bereshit in viewing Esav as a neutral, rather than wicked, figure. Do you agree with10 KB (1,506 words) - 05:07, 31 January 2020
- <p>There are a number of stories in Tanakh which describe friendly encounters with foreign dignitaries:</p> ...ng of Shalem and a <i>kohen</i> (<a href="Bereshit14-18" data-aht="source">Bereshit 14:18-24</a>).</li>5 KB (712 words) - 09:09, 20 July 2015
- <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9</h1> <category name="Bereshit 1 and 6-9">16 KB (2,611 words) - 08:30, 11 April 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 2-3</h1> ...<a href="https://etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/studies-tanakh/literary-readings-tanakh/chiastic-and-concentric-structures">Chiastic and Concentric Structures</a>14 KB (1,871 words) - 13:15, 11 April 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 34</h1> ...nakh Lab</a> demonstrates that the words that appear most frequently in in Bereshit 34 are בת and בן, the former appearing 14 times and the latter 11 times10 KB (1,501 words) - 07:43, 20 August 2023
- ...rnative to God – see Devarim 12:30,18:11, Melakhim I 1:2,3,6,16, Yeshayahu 8:19, Divrei HaYamim I 10:13.</fn> However, God cannot be physically seen or ...ed to support a number of possibilities:<fn>R. Saadia in his Commentary on Bereshit 25:22 brings prooftexts for four possible meanings for each of ‏דר�8 KB (1,157 words) - 12:49, 28 January 2023
- ...erent commentators’ approaches to the hardening of human beings’ hearts in Tanakh. Some propose that, at times, Hashem removes an individual’s free choice, <li>See <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-vaera/vaera-and-i-will-harden-heart-pharaoh">An11 KB (1,803 words) - 01:11, 29 December 2023
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 16</h1> <p>In Bereshit 16, there is an interplay between words relating to sight (“ראה” and8 KB (1,192 words) - 13:19, 11 April 2024
- <p>The bulk of <a href="Bereshit32-22" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32</a> describes in great detail how Yaakov prepared for his momentous enco ...he said, "Why is it that you ask for my name?" And he blessed him there. (Bereshit 32:23-30)</q>7 KB (939 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...master plan<fn>See <a href="Bereshit45-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:5,8</a> and <a href="Tehillim105" data-aht="source">Tehillim 105:16-25</a> whic ...ht="source">Tzeror HaMor</a><a href="TzerorBereshit15-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit 15:9</a><a href="R. Avraham Saba (Tzeror HaMor)" data-aht="parshan">About R7 KB (1,080 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...opment of the Israelite nation (1:1–7) and a main scene, "Evil Decrees" (1:8–22). For more on the structural units of the chapter and their relationsh ...an be subdivided into verses 1–5 which repeat events already told in Sefer Bereshit and verses 6–7 which move the reader to the upcoming story of Sefer Shemo17 KB (2,257 words) - 01:00, 1 October 2017
- ...source">Bereshit 1:26-27</a><a href="SfornoBereshit3-22" data-aht="source">Bereshit 3:22</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah Sfo ...all, but rather to fix that which is/will be created. [Cf. His comments to Bereshit 1:7 as well.]  Hashem does not speak to the angels about creating man,25 KB (3,738 words) - 12:25, 28 January 2023
- ...stly garments, many look to other instances where clothing plays a role in Tanakh.</p> ...the symbolism of the priestly garments in light of parallels elsewhere in Tanakh. Scholars look at the role of clothing in various narratives from the 18 KB (2,753 words) - 12:57, 11 April 2024
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 43</h1> ...em bring Binyamin to Egypt, Yehuda refers to Binyamin as “הַנַּעַר” (verse 8), which is the word with which Yosef is introduced in 37:2.<fn>See "Charact9 KB (1,274 words) - 13:34, 11 April 2024
- ...it26-2" data-aht="source">Bereshit 26:2</a>.  In all of these verses, Tanakh uses the formulation, "'<b>וַיֵּרָא</b> י״י אֶל" rather than ...ַּפֹּרֶת."  In other cases (<a href="Bereshit32-31" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:31</a>, <a href="Shofetim6-22-23" data-aht="source">Shofetim 6:22-23</a>9 KB (1,318 words) - 06:18, 21 February 2020
- ...light from Sedom as recounted in <a href="Bereshit19-12" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:12-26</a>. While the two works portray the same moment in the story, the ...18:2,16,22</a> and <a href="Bereshit19-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:5,8,10,12,16</a>. On one hand, the "מַלְאָכִים"‎ / "אֲנָש�10 KB (1,580 words) - 13:19, 31 July 2019
- <p>Perhaps surprisingly, a comparison of Hashem's revelation to Avraham in Bereshit 18 reveals much in common with Hashem's revelation to Moshe after the sin o ...ah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Bereshit:18:1-18:33&c2=Shemot:33:1-34:35&f=bc">Tanakh Lab</a>.</li>14 KB (2,158 words) - 14:24, 26 February 2024
- ...th explicitly mentions the promise of land to the Patriarchs (verses 4 and 8) and utilizes numerous linguistic hints to recall the covenantal agreements <li>See <a href="https://etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-vaera/vaera-brit-bein-habtarim-or-brit-milah">V6 KB (957 words) - 01:08, 29 December 2023
- ...rce">R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYBSBereshit37-25" data-aht="source">Bereshit 37:25</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef B ..." data-aht="source">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit37-3" data-aht="source">Bereshit 37:3</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David10 KB (1,537 words) - 04:29, 27 April 2023
- ...ta-aht="source">93:8</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink> and <multilink><a href="TanchumaVayigash5" data-aht= ...-aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit44" data-aht="source">Bereshit 44</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzchak11 KB (1,796 words) - 01:55, 27 November 2016
- <a href="Bereshit22" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22</a> describes Hashem's ultimate test of Avraham in the story commonly kn <p>More often than not, Tanakh does not reveal the emotions of its characters, and our story is no excepti6 KB (851 words) - 23:57, 14 November 2019
- ...erent commentators’ approaches to the hardening of human beings’ hearts in Tanakh. Some propose that, at times, Hashem removes an individual’s free choice, <li>See <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-vaera/vaera-and-i-will-harden-heart-pharaoh">An7 KB (1,145 words) - 06:28, 14 November 2023
- ...m "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you" (Bereshit 12:1-3).</li> <p>Though many of the interactions in Tanakh between Israel and its neighbors are hostile, there are several stories of13 KB (2,034 words) - 22:56, 11 April 2024
- ...Stom's artistic circle – both depict the sale of the birthright from Bereshit 25. At first glance, the two images seem very similar. In both, the brother ...rce">R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYBSBereshit25-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25:29-30</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yose10 KB (1,654 words) - 23:52, 4 July 2021
- <p>Tanakh records six cases of women who had difficulty conceiving but then miraculou ...t="source">Bereshit 18:10-15</a><a href="Bereshit21-1-7" data-aht="source">Bereshit 21:1-7</a></multilink>)</li>18 KB (2,684 words) - 12:34, 24 July 2019
- <p>Chapter 24 of Bereshit describes Avraham's servant's search for an appropriate wife for Yitzchak. ...idah, when Rivka was just born. <a href="Bereshit25-20" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25:20</a> tells us that Yitzchak was 40 at their marriage, making Rivka thr8 KB (1,298 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- <p>At times Tanakh switches from speaking in second person to third person (or vice versa) whe <li><b><a href="Bereshit27-31" data-aht="source">Bereshit 27:31</a></b>– Esav tells his father, "<b>יָ</b>קֻם אָבִי וְ<37 KB (4,967 words) - 14:32, 24 March 2024
- ...><a href="RSaadiaGaonCommentaryBereshit19-23" data-aht="source">Commentary Bereshit 19:23</a><a href="R. Saadia Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Saadia Gaon</ ...other example where the word is treated as feminine, see Divrei HaYamim II 8:11 ("אֲשֶׁר בָּ<b>אָה</b> אֲלֵיהֶם אֲרוֹן י"י")26 KB (3,267 words) - 23:23, 20 February 2024
- ...ge illuminated manuscript is one of the earliest surviving translations of Tanakh into Castilian. It was commissioned by a prominent churchman, Don Luis de G ..." data-aht="source">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit4-12" data-aht="source">Bereshit 4:12</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David15 KB (2,412 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...e">Bavli Shabbat 87b</a> and <a href="BereshitRabbah3-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah 3:9</a> note that the Tabernacle was built on the first day of Creat ...he service of the Tabernacle and man’s role of stewardship as described in Bereshit 2.  Taken together, the construction and service of the Tabernacle ser13 KB (2,018 words) - 08:20, 14 February 2024
- ...ation may be in Parashat Vayigash.<fn>An earlier example might be found in Bereshit 26 where Yitzchak's successful well-digging causes complications with his P ...otism is a valid practice, and when is it problematic?  Where else in Tanakh do leaders give preferential treatment to their families?  Do these ot8 KB (1,256 words) - 07:15, 2 January 2020
- ...a-aht="source">56:10</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink></li> ...ta-aht="source">61:4</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>. For elaboration, see: <a href="Avraham's Many Wives21 KB (3,071 words) - 14:08, 30 January 2022
- ...e">Bavli Shabbat 87b</a> and <a href="BereshitRabbah3-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah 3:9</a> note that the Tabernacle was built on the first day of Creat ...he service of the Tabernacle and man’s role of stewardship as described in Bereshit 2.  Taken together, the construction and service of the Tabernacle ser13 KB (2,016 words) - 08:49, 24 January 2024
- There are only two places in Tanakh where a prophet intervenes to save a non-Jewish city of sinners from destru ...verb elsewhere in a similar context automatically makes the reader recall Bereshit 19.</li>8 KB (1,019 words) - 00:11, 3 September 2020
- ...when speaking of Chanokh in <a href="Bereshit5-24" data-aht="source">Bereshit 5:24</a> ("כִּי לָקַח אֹתוֹ אֱלֹהִים"). There, too, w <p>Eliyahu is mentioned twice in Tanakh after his disappearance in the storm. In <a href="DivreiHaYamimII21-12" dat11 KB (1,405 words) - 19:35, 10 November 2019
- ...data-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalBereshit1-26" data-aht="source">Bereshit 1:26</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Abo ...nthropomorphic verses</b> – According to this approach it is expected that Tanakh should talk about Hashem as if he has a body.</point>15 KB (2,188 words) - 00:00, 1 May 2017
- ...en himself (as indicated by his distinguishing between Cohanim and "us" in Bereshit Beiur HaMilot 1:29-30), R. Levi HaCohen must have been his maternal grandfa <li>Parashat Bereshit – end of Av 5088 (August 1328)</li>11 KB (1,549 words) - 07:07, 14 January 2019
- ...href="https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/studies-tanakh/literary-readings-tanakh/between-chiastic-and-classical-parallelism">Between Chiastic and Classical ...s 5-6: Actions of Bat Paroh</p><p style="padding-left: 90px;">C'. Verses 7-8: Actions of Moshe’s sister</p><p style="padding-left: 60px;">B'. Verse 9:13 KB (2,042 words) - 03:34, 22 November 2023
- ...four kings of Midian (<a href="Bemidbar31-8" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 31:8</a>, with parallels in <a href="Yehoshua13-21-22" data-aht="source">Yehoshu ...n (Bereshit 25:20, 28:5, 31:20, and 31:24) and is from Aram Naharayim (see Bereshit 24:10), and Bilam is identified as coming from Aram (<a href="Bemidbar23" d15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:20, 30 January 2024
- ...t="source">R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschBereshit45-11" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:11</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. S"R7 KB (1,072 words) - 13:01, 28 January 2023
- ...only three places in Tanakh: <a href="Shemot8-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:16-28</a>, <a href="Tehillim78-45" data-aht="source">Tehillim 78:45</a>, an ...aht="source">Ralbag</a><a href="RalbagShemot8-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:17</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="parshan">19 KB (2,760 words) - 12:50, 28 January 2023
- <li>See <a href="https://etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/neviim/sefer-shmuel-aleph/chapter-3-shmuels-consecration-prophecy">Shemuel� <li>See<a href="https://etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/neviim/sefer-yirmeyahu/%E2%80%9C-i-formed-you-belly-i-knew-you%E2%80%9D-%E29 KB (1,361 words) - 00:31, 29 December 2023
- ...t7" data-aht="source">Bereshit 7</a>-<a href="Bereshit8" data-aht="source">8</a>), not surprisingly, are the Mesopotamian versions. These are similar to <li>Both Tanakh and the Babylonian versions describe the building of a boat which is depict18 KB (3,086 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...e">R. D"Z Hoffmann</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit19-16" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:16-17,26</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. ...unique meaning in Tanakh,<fn>The other occurrences of the word "נְצִיב" in Tanakh refer to a garrison or appointed officer, not an inanimate figure.</fn> and18 KB (2,951 words) - 17:26, 4 July 2019
- ...a-aht="source">Sforno</a><a href="SfornoBereshit9-18-27" data-aht="source">Bereshit 9:18-27</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah ...hree sons are mentioned together (<a href="Bereshit5-32" data-aht="source">Bereshit 5:32</a>, <a href="Bereshit6-9-10" data-aht="source">6:10</a>, <a href="Ber26 KB (3,955 words) - 11:23, 28 January 2023
- ...e">Bavli Shabbat 87b</a> and <a href="BereshitRabbah3-9" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah 3:9</a> note that the Tabernacle was built on the first day of Creat ...he service of the Tabernacle and man’s role of stewardship as described in Bereshit 2.  Taken together, the construction and service of the Tabernacle ser10 KB (1,650 words) - 01:31, 29 December 2023
- <p>Eliyahu and Yonah are the only two prophets in all of Tanakh who successfully persuade their audience to repent and change their ways. S ...walks for forty days to Sinai, fueled by but a single cake (Melakhim I 19:8). When told that Nineveh will be destroyed in forty days, the people fast (13 KB (1,673 words) - 13:17, 3 March 2024
- On three occasions in Tanakh, a prophet receives a revelation at Mt. Sinai. Hashem reveals Himself to Mo ...Sinai, all fueled by a single cake eaten before the journey (Melakhim I 19:8).</li>7 KB (1,059 words) - 14:35, 31 October 2019
- ...death for his beliefs, we know nothing of his religious journey from Sefer Bereshit itself. Rambam and the Kuzari offer two possibilities, each in line with th ...of the world.<fn>See also <a href="BereshitRabbah38-13" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah 38:13</a> which lays out a conversation between Avraham and Nimrod w42 KB (6,144 words) - 00:12, 6 July 2023
- <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 4</h1> ...these words still top the <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/4/1/4/26">list</a> but are joined by the verb "ילד" (to bear a child) re11 KB (1,634 words) - 13:16, 11 April 2024
- <p>The word חַיִל in its various forms appears 251 times in Tanakh.<fn>The word חֵל (a wall or fortress) occurs in another eight verses. I <li>Biblical verses – Bereshit 34:29, Bemidbar 31:29, Devarim 8:17-18, Yirmeyahu 15:13, 17:3, Yechezkel 28:4-5, Yoel 2:22, Tehillim 49:7,117 KB (915 words) - 12:24, 24 July 2019
- ...ree places in Tanakh: <a href="Shemot7-26" data-aht="source">Shemot 7:26 – 8:11</a>, <a href="Tehillim78-45" data-aht="source">Tehillim 78:45</a>, and < ...s.<fn>Regarding this notion in general and regarding the Plagues, see also Bereshit Rabbah 10:7, Shemot Rabbah Vaera 10:1.</fn></li>14 KB (2,028 words) - 03:38, 24 December 2019
- ...g to have children.  Her story is told in but seven chapters in Sefer Bereshit, a story filled with heartache and tragedy.  The narrative focuses mos <p>The stories surrounding Rachel in Tanakh focus mainly on her interactions with Yaakov and Leah, highlighting the ten30 KB (4,574 words) - 11:32, 28 January 2023
- ...page">Bereshit 25:1</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit25-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25:5-6</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. D"Z H ...i.e. Avraham's other offspring. See <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/he/tanakh/torah/sefer-bereishit/parashat-chayei-sara/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99-%D7%A9%D7%A8%22 KB (3,313 words) - 13:28, 24 July 2021
- ...tors attribute this to "דרך המקרא", the way of the text,<fn>See Rashbam on Bereshit 1:14, "דרך המקראות לומר לשון יחיד אצל לשון ר� ...For examples where the verb "היה" does not conform with gender, see: Bereshit 24:43 (<b>וְהָיָה הָעַלְמָה</b> הַיֹּצֵאת לִשְ21 KB (2,676 words) - 07:56, 13 September 2023
- <p>As Tanakh does not provide accompanying maps, we must piece together different textua ...nt><b>Keturah's descendants</b> – <a href="Bereshit25-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25:1-6</a> lists Midyan as one of the children of Keturah who were sent "to11 KB (1,739 words) - 03:05, 23 September 2019
- ...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.ٶ KB (7,608 words) - 20:53, 29 October 2023
- ...="source">Bereshit 24:39</a><a href="RadakBereshit24-49" data-aht="source">Bereshit 24:49</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Davi ...bam defines "מוֹלַדְתִּי" as family.<fn>Cf. Bereshit 43:7 and Esther 2:10, 8:6, and see <a href="$">"מוֹלֶדֶת"</a>.</fn> Thus, Avraham explicitl36 KB (5,578 words) - 23:19, 8 November 2023
- ...ekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit6-912-13" data-aht="source">Bereshit 6:9,12-13</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar14-29" data-aht="source">Bemi ...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 in29 KB (4,359 words) - 02:54, 17 August 2017
- ...it:12:3-12:3&c2=Bemidbar:22:6-22:6&f=bc">Tanakh Lab</a> to compare Bereshit 12:3 and Bemidbar 22:6. In the former, Hashem promises Avraham that all who <li><a href="BereshitRabbah55-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah 55:8</a> notes how both Avraham and Bilaam wake early and saddle their own donke14 KB (2,117 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2024
- <li><b>Teachers</b> – R. Eliyahu Bachur,<fn>The Minchah Belulah Bereshit 47:26 writes "ומפי אלופי ר' אליה המדקדק ז"ל שמעת� ...odern times in Benei Berak, 1989.</fn> His commentaries on other books of Tanakh and Avot remain in manuscript.<fn>The manuscript is now located in the Nati9 KB (1,351 words) - 06:33, 4 December 2014
- ...n Gall's edition, Der Hebräische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen, 1914-8).</fn> A comparison of these textual versions reveals many differences, ra ...armonizations of command and execution (see 4Q22 and SP Shemot 7:18, 7:29, 8:19, 9:5, 9:19, and 10:2), but 4Q22 does not contain the sectarian Samarian33 KB (4,792 words) - 11:40, 4 July 2019
- ...aht="source">U. Cassuto</a><a href="CassutoBereshit11-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 11:1-9</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. U. ...-aht="source">38:6-9</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>.</fn></point>23 KB (3,526 words) - 00:44, 4 September 2023
- <p>The Yosef narratives extend from Bereshit 37 through the end of the book, providing the reader with significantly mor <p>Bereshit 37 discusses both the brother's sale of Yosef, and the jealousy and hatred40 KB (5,805 words) - 12:59, 28 January 2023
- ...="source">Bereshit 44:21</a><a href="ShadalBereshit45-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:1</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Abo ..."source">Bereshit 44:32-34</a><a href="RYBSBereshit45-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:1</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Be24 KB (3,683 words) - 14:48, 4 July 2019
- ...Version B 2:8</a><a href="undefined5" data-aht="source">Esther Version B 2:8</a><a href="undefined6" data-aht="source">Esther Version B 2:10</a><a href= ...ial cost of imprisonment or death.<fn>See Bereshit 39:9,19-20 and Daniel 1:8-16.  R"A Saba likely views their exemplary conduct through the prism o20 KB (2,986 words) - 08:44, 17 December 2017
- <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <category>Treaties in Tanakh29 KB (4,583 words) - 12:32, 3 September 2022
- <content>Commentaries on Bereshit, Nevi'im, Tehillim, Mishlei, and Divrei HaYamim, Sefer HaMikhlol and Sefer ...Divrei HaYamim, Tehillim, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, and, finally, Bereshit. For some examples of his self-references see his comments on: <a href="Rad39 KB (5,526 words) - 03:26, 28 August 2023
- ...source">Bereshit 17:6</a> and <a href="Bereshit35-10-11" data-aht="source">Bereshit 35:10-11</a>.</fn> In <a href="Devarim17-14" data-aht="source">Devarim 17</ ...tion requests a monarch in <a href="ShemuelI8" data-aht="source">Shemuel I 8</a>, they encounter resistance:</p>9 KB (1,234 words) - 02:22, 25 September 2019
- ...href="Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9" data-aht="page">Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9</a> and the chiastic structure there. As the two halves of the Flood <p>At the end of Parashat Bereshit (<a href="Bereshit6-9" data-aht="source">6:6-7</a>), Hashem expresses expli41 KB (4,275 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- <td>Noach (meaning: rest)<fn>Tanakh explains the etymology of the name differently: "וַיִּקְרָא אֶ� ...Sumerian King list, the flood hero is the tenth king. Other versions list 8 kings before the deluge, not including the flood hero, making him the ninth9 KB (1,318 words) - 23:30, 6 July 2019
- <content>Commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud, Sifrut Debei Rashi</content> <li><b>Biblical commentaries</b> – Rashi wrote commentaries on all of Tanakh.</li>75 KB (10,263 words) - 10:39, 24 May 2023
- <h1>Bereshit 15 – One Prophecy or Two?</h1> In trying to untangle the difficulties raised by Bereshit 15, commentators are led to question the chronology and relationship of its35 KB (5,179 words) - 01:04, 11 November 2022
- <li><b>Teachers</b> – R. Eliyahu Bachur,<fn>The Minchah Belulah Bereshit 47:26 writes "ומפי אלופי ר' אליה המדקדק ז"ל שמעת� ...odern times in Benei Berak, 1989.</fn> His commentaries on other books of Tanakh and Avot remain in manuscript.<fn>The manuscript is now located in the Nati9 KB (1,343 words) - 13:00, 14 October 2014
- ..."וּמִיכַל בַּת שָׁאוּל אֲהֵבַתְהוּ".  As Michal is the only woman in Tanakh (excepting the beloved in Shir HaShirim) explicitly mentioned to have loved ...be enough to suggest that David did not love Michal, as it is the norm for Tanakh to be silent about the emotions of its characters.</fn> his motive for taki15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:51, 31 August 2017
- ...t="source">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit4-151623" data-aht="source">Bereshit 4:15,16,23</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avr ...he beginning of his reign are also described as "יְלָדִים" (Melakhim II 12:8-14).  For further analysis of the word, see P. Miller, "Yeled in the S30 KB (4,727 words) - 11:53, 28 January 2023
- ...e word "יֵצֵאוּ" to mean "depart", in line with the word's common usage in Tanakh.</point> ...<fn>See similar usage of the word in Bereshit 1:12, Bereshit 35:11, Shemot 8:14, and Yeshayahu 61:11.</fn></point>12 KB (1,663 words) - 21:58, 7 August 2018
- <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...he subject ("וַיֵּלֶךְ אַבְרָם" or "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה") . At times, though, Tanakh employs a form known as "עבר מהופך",  beginning with the subje53 KB (7,018 words) - 11:28, 4 November 2023
- ...ו יִשְׁכֹּן" in Chapter 16:12  and the fulfillment of that promise in Bereshit 25: "עַל פְּנֵי כׇל אֶחָיו נָפָל".</li> ...ּךָ וְהָיִיתָ לִקְהַל עַמִּים", as he heads to Beit El and then Charan. In Bereshit 35, when Yaakov returns to Beit El from Charan, Hashem blesses him, "אֱל30 KB (3,667 words) - 05:44, 9 February 2024
- <p>Bereshit Rabbah views the brothers as acting in unison to sell Yosef, with Reuven be ..."source">Bereshit 37:25</a><a href="RambanBereshit45-27" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:27</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="pars43 KB (6,489 words) - 13:09, 30 April 2020
- ...ht="source">Bereshit 12:1</a><a href="RadakBereshit24-4" data-aht="source">Bereshit 24:4</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David ...Chapter 11.<fn>For further discussion and other examples of achronology in Tanakh, see <a href="Chronological and Thematic Order" data-aht="page">Chronologic31 KB (4,682 words) - 02:24, 17 June 2020
- ...source">Radak</a><a href="RadakYehoshua8-32-35" data-aht="source">Yehoshua 8:30-35</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Davi ...ding children)<fn>See <a href="Yehoshua8-30-35" data-aht="source">Yehoshua 8:35</a>, which speaks of the all inclusive nature of the ceremony: "כׇּל29 KB (4,449 words) - 11:37, 9 May 2017
- ...here was no sin in the union and hence no punishment. The story appears in Tanakh only as a reaction to mythological tales of gods coupling with humans to fo ...halmi (Yonatan)</a><a href="PsJBereshit6-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 6:1-8</a><a href="Targum Yerushalmi (Yonatan)" data-aht="parshan">About Targum Ye43 KB (6,434 words) - 13:12, 26 November 2020
- ...uld not be able to trace the whereabouts of the family as they fled.  Bereshit Rabbah, in contrast, asserts that the terafim were actual idols and Rachel ...ereshit 31, Question 11</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit31" data-aht="source">Bereshit 31</a></multilink></mekorot>29 KB (4,355 words) - 02:26, 31 January 2020
- ...reshit29-21-1" data-aht="source">Tosafist MS Oxford 2343 (Tosafot HaShalem Bereshit 29:21:1)</a><a href="Baalei HaTosafot" data-aht="parshan">About Ba'alei HaT ...urce">Sforno</a><a href="SfornoBereshit30-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 30:8</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah Sforno</34 KB (5,178 words) - 10:24, 28 January 2023
- ...ntry for hundreds of years. <a href="Bereshit15-13" data-aht="source">Bereshit 15</a> reads:</p> ...to his brothers in <a href="Bereshit45-5" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:5-8</a> imply Divine foreknowledge of the exile and Hashem's active interventio24 KB (3,392 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...hitFirstCommentary22-6-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit First Commentary 22:6-8</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ez ...source">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit22-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 22:8</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Kimc43 KB (6,448 words) - 12:58, 28 January 2023
- ...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 rel118 KB (18,068 words) - 04:39, 27 November 2023
- ...s in 18:1 and the additional information that he receives from Moshe in 18:8. The former is what prompted the visit, as now that Moshe was safe, Yitro c <point><b>What Yitro hears in 18:1,8 and his recognition of Hashem in 18:11</b> – According to this position,22 KB (3,492 words) - 07:38, 15 January 2024
- ...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 ...e">Shemot 33:23</a><a href="RashbamShemot34-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 34:8</a><a href="RashbamVayikra9-23" data-aht="source">Vayikra 9:23</a><a href="54 KB (7,788 words) - 11:46, 28 January 2023
- <p>The Yaakov narratives span half of Sefer Bereshit, giving the reader significant insight into his life and character. When de ...ape of Dinah.  He adores Rachel, yet he is one of the few husbands in Tanakh to explicitly rebuke his wife. How are we to understand these contrasting t67 KB (9,806 words) - 03:51, 9 June 2023
- <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�89 KB (12,725 words) - 13:40, 17 January 2024
- <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 lite80 KB (11,486 words) - 11:33, 1 August 2021
- ...ism while the nation was in exile,<fn>Cf. the similar phenomenon in Esther 8:17, "וְרַבִּים מֵעַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ מִתְיַהֲד� ...s in their courts and palaces. See, for instance, Bereshit 40:2, Shemuel I 8:15 and Esther 1:12. Ben-Ze'ev further posits that one need not assume that19 KB (2,517 words) - 02:29, 12 February 2019
- ...sehold into two camps in Bereshit 32 and his actual encounter with Esav in Bereshit 33 which makes no mention of two camps and speaks only of the splitting and ...t fight Esav.  He suggests that though the second camp was present in Bereshit 33, it is simply not mentioned since Esav's peaceful overtures obviated the37 KB (5,577 words) - 15:49, 8 August 2016
- ...ata-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalBereshit32-25" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:25</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Ab ...ounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2" data-aht="page">Two Accounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2</a>Chofni notes <a href="Avraham" data-aht="page">Avraham</a> th37 KB (5,471 words) - 11:07, 28 January 2023
- ...ata-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalBereshit32-25" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:25</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Ab ...ounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2" data-aht="page">Two Accounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2</a>Chofni notes <a href="Avraham" data-aht="page">Avraham</a> th37 KB (5,476 words) - 11:48, 28 January 2023
- ...ata-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalBereshit32-25" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:25</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Ab ...ereshit32-24-7" data-aht="source">Tosafist MS Hamburg 40 (Tosafot HaShalem Bereshit 32:24:7)</a><a href="Baalei HaTosafot" data-aht="parshan">About Ba'alei HaT37 KB (5,512 words) - 12:56, 28 January 2023
- ...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 ...="source">R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschBereshit49-5-7" data-aht="source">Bereshit 49:5-7</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Sa42 KB (6,147 words) - 15:40, 4 July 2019
- ...0; It should be noted, however, that there is no textual evidence in Sefer Bereshit that any of these individuals, except for Avraham, sacrificed or prayed in ...choose. As evidence for this meaning of the word he points to Bereshit 22:8, "אֱ-לֹהִים יִרְאֶה לּוֹ הַשֶּׂה לְעֹלָה"32 KB (4,699 words) - 10:23, 28 January 2023
- ...imYirmeyahuBeurHaInyan34-8-21" data-aht="source">Yirmeyahu Beur HaInyan 34:8-21</a><a href="R. Meir Leibush Weiser (Malbim)" data-aht="parshan">About R. ...the people?</b> <a href="Yirmeyahu37-5-8" data-aht="source">Yirmeyahu 37:5-8</a> speaks of a short reprieve from the siege as a result of Egyptian inter22 KB (3,374 words) - 02:15, 12 February 2019
- ...ubscenes – Yitro's arrival in 18:1-7 and his conversation with Moshe in 18:8-12.<fn>For elaboration, see <a href="Structure – Shemot 18" data-aht="pag ...rt Yitro initially received (18:1) and the account he heard from Moshe (18:8), but also striking <aht-lit color="purple" weight="normal" group1="Contras39 KB (5,797 words) - 12:20, 24 July 2019
- <content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...nhedrin 702), and that Rashi learned from his interpretations (Sefer HaGan Bereshit 49:22). Since Rashi died in 1105, the assumption is that Rashbam must have71 KB (10,011 words) - 08:03, 20 December 2021
- .../a><a href="RalbagBereshit19P27" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 19:27-28,37-38</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-ah ...a-aht="source">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit18-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 18:1,13,33</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avr67 KB (10,373 words) - 10:32, 28 January 2023
- ...s commentaries on Yeshayahu, Yechezkel, and Terei Asar.  Our study of Tanakh and Parshanut would be immeasurably poorer if not for our good fortune that ...ppenstein's edition of the commentary began only in the middle of Yehoshua 8:13.  Recently, though, we discovered evidence that two of the missing27 KB (4,012 words) - 22:23, 6 May 2024
- ...urce">Bereshit 12:10</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit12-16" data-aht="source">Bereshit 12:16</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzch ...cations now, when contrasting Sarai with the Egyptians.<fn>See R. Zeira in Bereshit Rabbah, Radak, Akeidat Yitzchak, and Abarbanel. Abarbanel asserts that unti41 KB (6,316 words) - 11:33, 28 January 2023
- ...>Bereshit 18:23-26</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit19-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:29</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David ...b). Elsewhere in Tanakh, though, the word is masculine. See, for instance: Bereshit 30:2, Shemot 22:23, and 32:10.</fn></point>47 KB (7,246 words) - 10:46, 28 January 2023
- ...Yonatan)</a><a href="TargumPseudo-JonathanBereshit32-25" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:25</a><a href="Targum Yerushalmi (Yonatan)" data-aht="parshan">About Tar ...the word Kohanim here refers to the same people as it does in the rest of Tanakh:  Aharon's sons who have already been appointed.<fn>Cf. the opinion of41 KB (6,141 words) - 11:29, 28 January 2023
- .../a><a href="RShemuelbChofniGaonBereshit48-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 48:8</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Chofni Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Shemuel .../a><a href="RShemuelbChofniGaonBereshit48-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit 48:8</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Chofni Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Shemuel20 KB (2,936 words) - 11:12, 11 January 2020
- ..."source">Yeshayahu 22:12</a> and <a href="Amos8-10" data-aht="source">Amos 8:10</a>.</fn> for the exile of the Ten Tribes.  Its removal was no ...river or sea).<fn>It is somewhat difficult to support this definition from Tanakh.  Most occurrences of the word seem to refer either to lands found in17 KB (2,594 words) - 14:02, 15 November 2020
- .../a><a href="MekhiltaNezikin8" data-aht="source">Mekhilta Mishpatim Nezikin 8</a><a href="BavliBK83b" data-aht="source">Bavli Bava Kamma 83b-84a</a><a hr ...oted, though, that many of these instances are with regard to murder – see Bereshit 9:6, Bemidbar 35:33, Shemuel I 15:33, Shemuel II 12:9-12 (murder and adulte29 KB (4,264 words) - 02:47, 31 July 2023
- ...oIntroductiontoEstherpp6-8" data-aht="source">Introduction to Esther pp. 6-8</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Shemuel Reggio (Yashar)" data-aht="parshan">About R ...the similar phrase by Yosef's brothers "וְלֹא יָכְלוּ דַּבְּרוֹ לְשָׁלֹם" (Bereshit 37:4).  The allusion hints to the reader that, by Mordechai too, some17 KB (2,512 words) - 02:18, 12 February 2019
- ...only rarely,<fn>See Yehoshua 11:4 for another army described as such, and Bereshit 22:17 and Melakhim I 5:9 for other usages.</fn></li> ...have arms-bearers, and the verb דקר is found in only eight other places in Tanakh.</fn></li>16 KB (2,170 words) - 12:32, 24 July 2019
- ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a>.</li> ...r.</fn> has suggested that this meaning might illuminate several verses in Tanakh in which the more common definition of "to judge" or "execute judgement" is88 KB (12,486 words) - 07:18, 3 October 2023
- ...he beginning of his reign are also described as "יְלָדִים" (Melakhim II 12:8-14).  For further analysis of the word, see P. Miller, "Yeled in the S ...>אודות ר' שלמה יצחקי</a></multilink>,<fn>Rashi also brings the position of Bereshit Rabbah below.</fn> <multilink><a href="AbarbanelBereshit4-23-24" data-aht="31 KB (4,544 words) - 10:59, 28 January 2023
- ...ayikra 16:34</a><a href="RalbagBereshitBeurHaMilot32-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit Beur HaMilot 32:21</a><a href="RalbagVayikraToalot1-4" data-aht="source">Va ...means "sin".<fn>See, for example, <a href="Bereshit4-7" data-aht="source">Bereshit 4:7</a>, <a href="Bereshit18-20" data-aht="source">18:20</a>, <a href="Bere35 KB (5,281 words) - 11:47, 28 January 2023
- ...urce">Bereshit 49:22-26</a><a href="NetzivBereshit50-16" data-aht="source">Bereshit 50:16</a><a href="R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv)" data-aht="parshan ...ure fates of their tribes,<fn>Ibn Ezra understands "אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים" in Bereshit 49:1 to refer to the period from the Exodus through the Monarchy, rather th34 KB (4,761 words) - 12:56, 28 January 2023
- ...hverosh's search for a wife contains allusions to several other stories in Tanakh:</p> ...d during the years of famine (<a href="Bereshit41-34-37" data-aht="source">Bereshit 41</a>)</li>39 KB (4,253 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2015
- ...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>158 KB (21,927 words) - 04:08, 3 April 2024
- ...">R. S"R Hirsch</a><a href="RHirschShemot17-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:8</a><a href="RHirschShemot17-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:14</a><a href=" ..."Z Hoffmann</a><a href="RDZHoffmannShemot17-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:8</a><a href="RDZHoffmannDevarim25-17" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:17-19</a>35 KB (5,387 words) - 22:35, 29 October 2020
- ...adia Gaon</a><a href="Rasag18-8" data-aht="source">Commentary on Shemot 18:8-21</a><a href="R. Saadia Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Saadia Gaon</a>< ...epending on the branch of Islam. R. Saadia uses it consistently throughout Tanakh when translating the word <i>kohen</i>.</fn></point>34 KB (5,370 words) - 11:40, 4 July 2019
- ...="source">Bereshit 2:1</a><a href="AbarbanelBereshit3-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 3:1</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzchak ...>About R. Yosef Bekhor Shor</a></multilink>, that Hashem's words to man in Bereshit 1, "פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ", were only relayed after the sin.  He55 KB (8,349 words) - 09:27, 24 October 2020
- ...here was no sin in the union and hence no punishment. The story appears in Tanakh only as a reaction to mythological tales of gods coupling with humans to fo ...ce">מ״ד קאסוטו</a><a href="UCassutoBereshit6" data-aht="source">U. Cassuto Bereshit 6</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">אודות פרופ43 KB (6,164 words) - 14:00, 24 July 2019
- ..."source">Bereshit 12:10</a><a href="RambanBereshit15-12" data-aht="source">Bereshit 15:12</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="pars ...argum Yerushalmi (Yonatan)</a><a href="PsJBereshit15-13" data-aht="source">Bereshit 15:13</a><a href="Targum Yerushalmi (Yonatan)" data-aht="parshan">About Tar76 KB (11,772 words) - 11:28, 28 January 2023
- ...ition to his commentary on <a href="RambanBereshit35-16" data-aht="source">Bereshit 35:16</a> describes his coming to Yerushalayim. In his <multilink><a href=" ...aOtiyyot, 4:45), however T. Preschel, "אגרת שיוחסה בטעות לרמב"ן", Talpiyot 8:1 (1960): 49-53, pointed out that most of it contains almost verbatim paral94 KB (13,267 words) - 02:52, 29 May 2023
- <p>The account of the Flood and its aftermath in Bereshit 6–9 abounds with apparent doublings and contradictions, with almost every ...ruption and verdict</b> – In <a href="Bereshit6-1-8" data-aht="source">6:1-8</a> and then again in <a href="Bereshit6-9-13" data-aht="source">6:9-13</a>75 KB (7,985 words) - 12:16, 28 January 2023
- ...after Shabbat Bereshit", but it is not clear if this refers to the Shabbat Bereshit within Chag HaMatzot or afterwards.</fn> <multilink><a href="YefetbElitheKa ...fers to the seventh day of the week is supported by many verses throughout Tanakh.  This interpretation also allows one to explain all three appearances51 KB (7,772 words) - 15:43, 4 July 2019
- ...ch identifies Chovav as 'the Reuelite' (cf. 'the Yeminite' in Melakhim A 2:8, and <multilink><a href="RDZHoffmann2-18" data-aht="source">R. D"Z Hoffmann ...asically the same message. Furthermore, no explanation is provided for why Tanakh would use different names in different places.</point>34 KB (5,360 words) - 17:24, 4 July 2019
- ...he Exodus was supposed to occur and as to how to interpret the prophecy of Bereshit 15:13. According to the Rambam's reconstruction, two of the theories propos ...<b>"וְדוֹר רְבִיעִי יָשׁוּבוּ הֵנָּה"</b>(Bereshit 15:16) – The Hoil Moshe Bereshit 15:16 explains that "generation" here doesn’t mean a literal generation,77 KB (11,200 words) - 12:16, 28 January 2023
- ...rce">Vayikra Rabbah</a><a href="VayikraRabbah20-8-10" data-aht="source">20:8-10</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a>< <point><b>Biblical parallels</b> – Several stories in Tanakh recount similar punishments for breaching boundaries:<br/>56 KB (8,616 words) - 06:50, 15 February 2024
- ...hat chapter in <a href="Bereshit 15 – One Prophecy or Two" data-aht="page">Bereshit 15 – One Prophecy or Two?</a></fn></point> ...sef Kara</a><a href="RYosefKaraYechezkel4-8" data-aht="source">Yechezkel 4:8</a><a href="R. Yosef Kara" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Kara</a></mult28 KB (4,379 words) - 14:03, 24 July 2019
- ...t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjm1p7_yIDlAhVwMewKHSGvCzoQFjAAegQIABAC&url=https%3A%2F%2 ...="Shemot28-17-20" data-aht="source">Shemot 28:17</a> and <a href="Shemot39-8-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 39:10</a>) and the stones of Gan Eden (<a href46 KB (6,818 words) - 04:06, 26 March 2024
- ...rce">Shemot 8:15</a><a href="LekachTovShemot8-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:17</a><a href="LekachTovShemot9-3" data-aht="source">Shemot 9:3</a><a href= ..."source">Shemot 8:6</a><a href="NetzivShemot8-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:18</a><a href="NetzivShemot9-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 9:14</a><a href="47 KB (7,248 words) - 00:53, 7 August 2023
- ...ht="source">Bereshit 41:51</a><a href="BiurBereshit44-2" data-aht="source">Bereshit 44:2</a><a href="Biur (Netivot HaShalom)" data-aht="parshan">About the Biur ...l to the brothers' reaction in <a href="Bereshit42-1-28" data-aht="source">Bereshit 42:21</a>.  Cf. Seikhel Tov below.</fn>  If so, this is exactly w69 KB (10,636 words) - 12:56, 28 January 2023
- ...nterpersonal relationships and emotional attachment.<fn>See, for instance, Bereshit 22:2, 25:28, 29:20 and 37:3, which describe Avraham's love of Yitzchak, Yit ...e would need to argue that there are multiple meanings of the word love in Tanakh.</li>34 KB (5,085 words) - 03:59, 7 May 2020
- ...an Exile were foretold to Avraham already at the Covenant of the Pieces in Bereshit 15:14:</p> ...tands in stark contrast to many other Biblical punishments regarding which Tanakh emphasizes that it was God who was responsible.</fn></p>25 KB (2,581 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2019
- ..." data-aht="page">here</a> for an analysis of the phrase "at that time" in Tanakh). Alternatively, one could suggest that Devarim 1 is a retelling, not of th ...to 24:14. However, see below that R. Saadia in his commentary on Shemot 18:8-21 takes the opposite position (that of Ibn Ezra himself) that Yitro arrive64 KB (10,340 words) - 06:33, 23 July 2021
- ...cators of Achronology</a> for an analysis of the phrase "בָּעֵת הַהִוא" in Tanakh). He adds that Moshe mentions this story here to demonstrate that if not fo ...ver, if one assumes that this is the same R. Chiyya as R. Chiyya Rabbah in Bereshit Rabbah 22:5 who asserts that Yitro came after the Decalogue, it is possible22 KB (3,465 words) - 10:41, 3 September 2022
- <point><b>Bilam's character</b> – According to Rambam, at this point in Tanakh, Bilam is a positive character, loyal and obedient to Hashem's word, as evi ...nal doubts regarding his actions.<br/>For a parallel controversy regarding Bereshit 18–19 over where to demarcate the boundaries of what some suggest was onl57 KB (8,487 words) - 12:51, 28 January 2023
- ...tradiction in a different way, demonstrating that the Second Commentary on Bereshit and Shemot are not part of a single edition and need not have been written ...aShirim, Shemot, and Trei Asar while in Rouen, and his third commentary on Bereshit while in England.</fn> As such, it was first at about the age of fifty that93 KB (12,083 words) - 08:00, 14 August 2023
- ...h 22:1-5, 7-8, 10-13</a><a href="RalbagBereshitToalot22" data-aht="source">Bereshit Toalot 22</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="pa ...gBereshitBeurHaParashah32-8" data-aht="source">Bereshit Beur HaParashah 32:8</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="parshan">Abo57 KB (8,467 words) - 12:03, 28 January 2023
- ...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 ("� ...מִתּוֹךְ הָאֹהֶל" parallels Hashem's later words to Yehoshua in Yehoshua 1:8, "לֹא יָמוּשׁ סֵפֶר הַתּוֹרָה הַזֶּה מִפִ42 KB (6,113 words) - 12:58, 28 January 2023
- <content>Translation and Commentary on Tanakh, Emunot VeDeiot, Siddur, other Halakhic, Grammatical and Liturgical Works</ ...Jacob Mann, ‘A Fihrist of Sa’adya’s Works’, Jewish Quarterly Review, 2:423-8 (1920–1).</fn></li>26 KB (2,683 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- ...ִים"</b> – The Hoil Moshe asserts that each of these verbs appear often in Tanakh in the context of people submitting or bowing to other people,<fn>As exampl ...h7-8" data-aht="source">7:8</a><a href="EstherRabbah8-7" data-aht="source">8:7</a><a href="Esther Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Esther Rabbah</a></mu43 KB (6,586 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- ...ref="RSaadiaGaonHaEmunotVeHaDeiot8-2" data-aht="source">HaEmunot VeHaDeiot 8:2</a><a href="RSaadiaGaonHaEmunotVeHaDeiot9-1" data-aht="source">HaEmunot V ...t="page">Collective Punishment</a>.<fn>For analysis of specific stories in Tanakh see also <a href="Avraham's Prayer for Sedom" data-aht="page">Avraham'66 KB (10,151 words) - 01:04, 2 December 2020
- ...עָלֶיךָ" can relate to good tidings as well as bad.<fn>See, for instance, Bereshit 18:19 where Hashem speaks of bringing blessing to Avraham, or Devarim 28:2 ...וּדְבָשׁ", a description which consistently has a positive connotation in Tanakh. </li>28 KB (3,880 words) - 21:57, 31 July 2019
- ...midbar 12:3</a><a href="RHirschBemidbar12-8" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 12:8</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. S"R Hirsc ...marriage which is devoid of marital relations. He asserts that throughout Tanakh the term Cush has a negative connotation, connoting a lowly nation or indiv36 KB (5,634 words) - 22:15, 28 July 2019
- ...5:7-8</a> and <a href="ShemuelI6-3-8" data-aht="source">Shemuel I 6:3-8</a> as evidence.<fn>R. D"Z Hoffmann notes that the root in general often co ...in Tanakh.<fn>See, for instance, <a href="Bereshit42-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit 42:21</a>, <a href="Vayikra4-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 4:13</a>,<a href27 KB (4,296 words) - 01:02, 5 February 2024
- ...items. The various sources attempt to link each suggestion with a case in Tanakh where someone committed that sin and was afflicted.  However, in many ...s</b> – This position is supported by the fact that most of the stories in Tanakh which mention a person being afflicted with <i>tzara'at</i>, explicitly spe39 KB (6,116 words) - 11:46, 28 January 2023
- ...tators<fn>See R"E Ben-Menachem, Da'at Mikra Commentary to Yonah, (1973): 7-8, Prof. U. Simon, Mikra LeYisrael, Commentary to Yonah (1992), Prof. D. Hens <point><b>Comparison to Eliyahu</b> – The only other case in Tanakh in which a prophet appears to successfully effect change in the people is E41 KB (6,276 words) - 03:13, 26 August 2020
- ...="source">Ran</a><a href="DerashotHaRan8" data-aht="source">Derashot HaRan 8</a><a href="R. Nissim Gerondi (Ran)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Nissim Ger ...blessings of <a href="Devarim28-1-13" data-aht="source">Devarim 28:3-8</a> are all worded in the singular ("בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה") and co111 KB (16,500 words) - 11:37, 28 January 2023
- ...a href="RAvrahamSabaEshkolHaKopher2-8" data-aht="source">Eshkol HaKopher 2:8</a><a href="R. Avraham Saba" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham Saba</a></ ...link> and R. Meir Arama assert that the word "וַתִּלָּקַח", in both 2:8 and 2:16, implies Esther's being taken by force and against her will.</poin35 KB (5,193 words) - 22:39, 22 March 2016
- ...data-aht="source">Ramban</a><a href="RambanBereshit1-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 1:29</a><a href="RambanVayikra17-11" data-aht="source">Vayikra 17:11</a><a ...ns regarding blood and murder in <a href="Bereshit9-1-4" data-aht="source">Bereshit 9:4-6</a>, repeatedly links the two prohibitions,<fn>See Jubiless 6:10-18,51 KB (7,745 words) - 10:24, 28 January 2023
- ...etim 1:28-35</a> or <a href="Yeshayahu31-8" data-aht="source">Yeshayahu 31:8</a>.</fn> The nation was conscripted to work in building storehouses for th ...exempt from this tax,<fn>See <a href="Bereshit47-12-27" data-aht="source">Bereshit 47:12</a>.</fn> they were instead forced to build the storehouses for the w26 KB (3,841 words) - 06:58, 14 September 2018
- ..."RambamHilchotYesodaiHaTorah8-1" data-aht="source">Hilkhot Yesodei HaTorah 8:1</a><a href="MorehNevukhim1-37" data-aht="source">Moreh Nevukhim 1:37</a>< ...hemot 33:11, Devarim 34:10) and Yaakov and Gidon's encounters with angels (Bereshit 32:31, Shofetim 6:22).</fn>  Rambam explains that the words "פָּנ�52 KB (7,576 words) - 12:14, 1 November 2023
- ...ta-aht="source">60:3</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaBechukotai5" data- ...approach the other, leaving Yiftach's daughter to her unfortunate fate.<fn>Bereshit Rabbah and Tanchuma write that both leaders were punished for this act.</fn31 KB (4,674 words) - 15:15, 25 February 2024
- .... Shemuel b. Chofni Gaon</a><a href="RSBHGBereshit47-22" data-aht="source">Bereshit 47:22</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Chofni Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Sh ...forms) with regard to sexual prohibitions (see Vayikra 18:3,4,5,26,30, 20:8,22). In Mekhilta Yitro Amalek 2 he presents an identical interpretation of57 KB (8,236 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...n Kaspi</a><a href="RYosefibnKaspiBereshit8-20" data-aht="source">Bereshit 8:20</a><a href="RYosefibnKaspiVayikra1-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 1:1</a>< ...e the Mishkan</b> – Ramban challenges this approach from the characters in Tanakh, such as Kayin and Hevel, and Noach, who brought sacrifices when no idolatr61 KB (9,056 words) - 12:09, 28 January 2023
- ...a-aht="source">84:20</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink> which alludes to this idea as well.</fn> point to on ...For an extensive discussion of the different borders mentioned throughout Tanakh for the Promised Land, see Profs.Y. Elitzur and Y. Kil, Atlas Daat Mikra, (51 KB (7,205 words) - 11:52, 28 January 2023
- <h1>In-law Stories in Tanakh</h1> ...Bereshit27-41" book="English Bereshit" ref="27,41,43" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/27.41$$e1">36 KB (1,225 words) - 20:41, 13 January 2020
- ...appears in Shemuel II 24:16. See also Bereshit 19:13-14 and Yechezkel 9:6-8 which similarly refer to death or destruction (using the root of שחת) wr ...kel 9</a>,<fn>Compare also to the function of the "אוֹת" given to Kayin in Bereshit 4:15 and the "אוֹת" of the scarlet cord in Yehoshua 2, and see Akeidat68 KB (10,448 words) - 12:30, 28 January 2023
- ...protective role of the cities.<fn>Since the word "מִקְלָט" only appears in Tanakh in the context of these cities, its meaning is difficult to determine with ...data-aht="source">Radak</a><a href="RadakSBereshit4-12" data-aht="source">Bereshit 4:12</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David28 KB (4,405 words) - 12:16, 28 January 2023
- ...a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar12-7-8" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 12:7-8</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorDevarim34-10" data-aht="source">Devarim 34:10</ ...on his own initiative that miracles will occur.<fn>For example, in Shemot 8, Moshe tells Paroh, without prior discussion with Hashem, to set a time for88 KB (13,049 words) - 05:58, 13 February 2024
- ...they attempt to present composite theories of how Divine justice works in Tanakh and throughout the course of history.</p> ...name and the fear of dying without an heir are expressed in many places in Tanakh and are commonplace today as well.</p><p>Shadal objects to this interpretat153 KB (23,303 words) - 11:55, 28 January 2023
- <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> ...8-17" book="English Bereshit" ref="9,8,17" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/9.8$$e1">127 KB (11,622 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2020
- <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...lid="Bereshit1-29" book="English Bereshit" ref="1,29" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/1.29$$e1">210 KB (17,551 words) - 10:01, 4 November 2023
