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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 23/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 23</h1> <category>Shemot 23 and 34
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• Dictionary:נבל/0
  ...-aht="source">U. Cassuto</a><a href="CassutoShemot18-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:18</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. U. <li>Forms of the verb נבל or the noun נבלה appear in Tanakh in reference to humans, animals, and plants:
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• Philosophy:Anthropomorphism/1
  ...mells (Bereshit 8:21), hears (Bemidbar 11:1), sits (Yeshayhu 6:1), stands (Shemot 17:6), remembers (Bereshit 8:1), and sleeps (Tehillim 78:65).</fn><sup><br/
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• Puzzles – Shemot 18/0
  <h1>Puzzles – Shemot 18</h1> <li>How does Tanakh refer to the respective fathers-in-law of the husband and wife?
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• Parashah Puzzles – Yitro/0
  <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?
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 24/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 24</h1> ...he story of revelation in Devarim 5.&#160; The appearance of the phrase in Shemot 24, ostensibly after the giving of the Decalogue, raises questions as to th
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• Dictionary:חֹתֵן – חֹתֶנֶת/0
  ...only once in Tanakh – <a href="Devarim27-23" data-aht="source">Devarim 27:23</a>.</li> ...eeping with a חותנת in <a href="Devarim27-23" data-aht="source">Devarim 27:23</a> would be ambiguous.</fn></li>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 15/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 15</h1> <category>Songs in Tanakh
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• "לֹא תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ"/1
  ...t="source">Shemot 23:19</a> and <a href="Shemot34-18-26" data-aht="source">Shemot 34:26</a>, it appears at the end of a list of commandments relating to the ...nakh.</fn> While the mention of a "גְּדִי" might support the first option, Shemot's immediate context of first fruits might point to the second possibility.<
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• Context Overview – Shemot 18/0
  <h1>Overview – Context and Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...lace, and if not, why the Torah placed it here. See <a href="Chronology – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology</a> for a full discussion of this topic.</li
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 16/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 16</h1> ...desert. Other complaints can be found in Shemot 14:10-14, Shemot 15:22-25, Shemot 17:1-7, Bemidbar 11:5-6, Bemidbar 14:2-3, Bemidbar 20:1-6, and Bemidbar 21:
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 24/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 24</h1> ...(23:10-19)</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">B') Laws between man and God (23:20-33)</p><p>A') Covenant at Sinai</p>
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• Dictionary:Hendiadys/0
  ...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 Tanakh
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• Ancient Near Eastern Index – Parashat Bo/0
  ...ontains a list of links to articles which touch on the connections between Tanakh and ancient cultures.</div> <p>Both&#160;<a href="Shemot12-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:12</a> and <a href="Bemidbar33-4" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 33:4</a> ex
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• Seeing Hashem/1
  ...he elders at Sinai&#8206;<fn>See <a href="Shemot24-1-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 24:1-12</a> where we are told, "וַיִּרְאוּ אֵת אֱלֹהֵי ...fn>&#160; Even Moshe is told in <a href="Shemot33-11-23" data-aht="source">Shemot 33:20</a>:</p>
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 32/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 32</h1> ...appears a full 19 times in the chapter.&#160; Nechama Leibowitz notes that Tanakh uses it artfully to subtly reveal Hashem and Moshe's feelings as Hashem acc
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• Literary Devices – Bemidbar 15/0
  <p>In his lecture, <a href="https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-bamidbar/parashat-shelach/between-law-and-meraglim-narrative">B ...d Hashem’s earlier decree that this generation will not enter the land (14:23).</li>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 7-11/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 7-11</h1> <li>See<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Biblical_Parallels/Shemot/4.21#m5e3n6"> Makbilot Bamikra</a> for a list and links to of all the verse
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• Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance/1/en
  ...ks up the flow of the nationally focused narrative (see <a href="Context – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Context</a>)?</p>
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• Calling for Peace in the Conquest of Canaan/1
  ...t="source">Shemot 23:32-33</a>, <a href="Shemot34-11-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 34:11-16</a>, <a href="Bemidbar33-51-56" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 33:51-5 <p>Several other passages in Tanakh bear on our question:</p>
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• Moshe and Eliyahu at Sinai/0
  ...h episode (Shemot 3-4), and later, when giving him the Tablets of the Law (Shemot 19-20, 24, 33-34). Eliyahu, too, receives a revelation on the mountain afte ...Shemot 2:12, Melakhim I 18:40) prompting the king to call for their death (Shemot 2:15, Melakhim I 19:2).&#160; Both prophets then escape and eventually arri
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• Chronology – Shemot 18/1
  <h1>Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...8/Audio1.ogg" type="audio/ogg"></a><a href="/Media/2Shemot/18/Chronology – Shemot 18/Audio1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"></a></audio>
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• Injury to Bystanders and the Meaning of "יהיה אסון"/1/en
  <p><a href="Shemot21-22-25" data-aht="source">Shemot 21:22-23</a> describes a scenario in which two men brawl and a pregnant woman is str ...y upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.</q><q xml:lang="en">(23) <b>But if any harm follow</b>, then thou shalt give life for life.</q>
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• Commentators:R. David Zvi Hoffmann/0
  <content>Commentaries on Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Devarim, ספר מלמד להועיל, ראיות מכריעות ...nvited R. D"Z Hoffmann to join the faculty and teach Talmud, Halakhah, and Tanakh.</li>
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• Ancient Near Eastern Index – Parashat Vaera/0
  ...ontains a list of links to articles which touch on the connections between Tanakh and ancient cultures.</div> ....il/en/tanakh/studies-tanakh/core-studies-tanakh/tanakh-and-archaeology-5">Tanakh and Archaeology (5)</a>, by R. Amnon Bazak, for a review of arguments that
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 29/0
  ...al narrative in which a basic narrative sequence appears multiple times in Tanakh, each time with modifications that serve the needs of the specific unit. Pa ...el with the stories to Avraham's servant (Bereshit24) and Moshe in Midyan (Shemot 2) can be revealing.</li>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 12/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 12</h1> <p>The laws of the Pesach sacrifice are spoken of in both Shemot 12 and Devarim 16.</p>
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• Philosophy:Requirements for Prophecy/1
  ...prophets, including even a few female prophetess.<fn>These include Miryam (Shemot 15:20), Devorah (Shofetim 4:4), and Chuldah (Melakhim II 22:14). Yeshayahu <p>On the other hand, there are stories in Tanakh which suggest that preparation is necessary in order to gain prophecy:</p>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 32/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 32</h1> <category>The Sin of the Calf in Shemot 32 and Devarim 9
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 2/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 2</h1> ...eply impacted by his experiences as a child.</fn> and a conclusion (verses 23-24 which speak of Hashem hearing the nation's cries).&#160; According to th
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• Commentators:Character Consolidation/1
  ...–&#160;<multilink><a href="#" data-aht="source">Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Shemot 18:1</a></multilink>. For discussion, see&#160; <a href="Yitro – Names" d ...data-aht="source">1:13</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>. For discussion, see: <a href="Who are the Midwives"
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• Nadav and Avihu vs. Korach/0
  ...and the only two where a מחתה is used.<fn>In one of the other three cases, Shemot 40:27, no mention is made of any tool, and in the other two cases, Yechezke ...language "וַיֵּרָא כְבוֹד י"י אֶל כׇּל הָעָם" or "כׇּל הָעֵדָה" (Vayikra 9:23 and Bemidbar 16:19). These are the only two places where such terminology i
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• Philosophy:Collective Punishment/1/en
  ...ִּיק עִם רָשָׁע" (<a href="Bereshit18-16-33" data-aht="source">Bereshit 18:23</a>). Similarly, during the rebellion of Korach when Hashem tells Moshe to <p>The above cases are by no means the only stories in Tanakh in which there seems to be collective punishment. From the Flood in the tim
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• Dictionary:שאל/0
  ...rce">Devarim 13:15</a>, <a href="ShemuelI23-4" data-aht="source">Shemuel I 23:4</a>, and many others</li> <subcategory><a href="Shemot3-22" data-aht="source">Shemot 3:22</a>, <a href="Shemot11-2" data-aht="source">11:2</a>, and <a href="She
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• The Roundabout Route and The Road Not Traveled/1/en
  ...And do not the opening verses of <a href="Shemot14-1-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 14</a> detail how Hashem choreographed the Israelites' movements in order t ..."source">R. Y"S Reggio</a><a href="RYSReggioShemot13-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 13:17</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Shemuel Reggio (Yashar)" data-aht="parshan">A
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• Commentators:R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)/0
  <li>Iyyov – 23 Tevet 5086 (December 30, 1325). This date, however, fell out on Shabbat.</ <li>Shemot – 1 Elul 5090 (August 17, 1330)</li>
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• Reward and Punishment/1
  ...of longevity for honoring parents (<a href="Shemot20-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:11</a>), sending away the mother bird (<a href="Devarim22-6-7" data-aht= ...evarim/22" target="_blank" data-book="Devarim" data-ref="22" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Devarim/22">דברים כב</a>}</span> שלח תשלח את ה�
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• Dictionary:עָרֹב/0
  ...ars in 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>, ...me exegetes combine the different possibilities – see Midrash Tehillim and Shemot Rabbah 11:2.</fn></p>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 24/0
  ...e phrase in Torah are in our chapter, though it appears four more times in Tanakh.</fn>&#160; It is not clear if the second term is simply a shortened form o ...al narrative in which a basic narrative sequence appears multiple times in Tanakh, each time with modifications that serve the needs of the specific unit. Pa
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• Urim VeTummim/1
  <p>In <a href="Shemot28-15-30" data-aht="source">Shemot 28</a>, at the end of the unit regarding the Choshen, Hashem includes a com <p><a href="Shemot39-8-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 39</a>&#160;describes the fulfillment of Hashem's command and the making of
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• Bilam/0/en
  <p>Bilam is one of the more mysterious characters in Tanakh. Bilam is first mentioned in <a href="Bemidbar22" data-aht="source">Bemidba ...joining the Israelites (<a href="Devarim23-5-6" data-aht="source">Devarim 23:5-6</a>, and also <a href="Nechemyah13-1-2" data-aht="source">Nechemyah 13:
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• Appointing Moshe's Assistants/2
  Shemot 18, Bemidbar 11, and Devarim 1</h1> ...e relationship between the three accounts, the primary question is whether Shemot 18 and Bemidbar 11 speak of events which occurred at totally different time
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 4/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 4</h1> <li><a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Shemot/4/1/4/31">Tanakh Lab</a>&#160;demonstrates that the word that appears with the greatest freq
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• Grammar:Gender/0
  ...aadiaGaonCommentaryBereshit19-23" data-aht="source">Commentary Bereshit 19:23</a><a href="R. Saadia Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Saadia Gaon</a></mu ...ere it takes a feminine verb (כִּי <b>תֵ</b>צֵא אֵשׁ)<fn>See also Shemot 9:23, Vayikra 6:3,6, Vayikra 9:24, 10:2, Bemidbar 11:2 and others</fn>&#160; wit
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• "לֹא תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ"/2
  ...>R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Samson ...urce">R"Y Kara</a><a href="RYosefKaraShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Yosef Kara" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Kara</a></m
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• Purpose of the Shulchan and Lechem HaPanim/2
  ...e">Cassuto</a><a href="UCassutoShemot25-23-30" data-aht="source">Shemot 25:23-30</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. Umbert ...ported by the parallel verse in <a href="Shemot37-10-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 37:16</a> in which the term "אֲשֶׁר יֻסַּךְ בָּהֵן" is j
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• Philosophy:Theodicy – צדיק ורע לו/1/en
  ...source">Kohelet 7:15</a>.</fn>&#8206; the issue comes up time and again in Tanakh.<fn>See also <a href="Chavakkuk1-13" data-aht="source">Chavakkuk 1</a>, <a
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bemidbar 16-17/0
  <li>The&#160;<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Vayikra/10/1/10/5">Tanakh Lab</a> demonstrates that the chapter most linguistically similar to the st ...a><a href="MidrashAggadahBuberBemidbar17-23" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 17:23</a><a href="Midrash Aggadah (Buber)" data-aht="parshan">About Midrash Aggad
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 18/0
  <!--<button onclick="Open({topic:'Literary Devices – Shemot 18',page:'Analysis2'})" style="position:absolute;top:11px;right:13px;">Go t <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 18</h1>
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• Textual Variants – Shemot 18/0
  <h1>Textual Variants – Shemot 18</h1> ...s in four respects:<fn>This is true in general, and specifically regarding Shemot 18 – see examples in the categories below.</fn></p>
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• Service of the Levites/0
  ...Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraShemotSecondCommentary32-29" data-aht="source">Shemot Second Commentary 32:29</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan" ...David (<a href="DivreiHaYamimI23-24-32" data-aht="source">Divrei HaYamim I 23:24-28</a>), Chizkiyahu (<a href="DivreiHaYamimII31-17" data-aht="source">Di
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• Epilogue to the Manna Story/2
  ...sef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorShemot16-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef B ...ts fulfillment) is not uncommon.&#160; For other examples, see Shemot 4:22-23 (though perhaps related to 11:5), 7:15-18, 7:26-29, 8:16-19, 9:1-4, 9:13-19
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• Grammar:Number/0
  ...יְהִי אֲנָשִׁים),&#160;<a href="Devarim22-23" data-aht="source">Devarim 22:23</a> (כִּי יִהְיֶה נַעֲרָ בְתוּלָה),</li> <li><a href="Shemot1-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:10</a>&#160;("כִּי תִקְרֶאנָה מִלְחָמָה") –&#160
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• Seeing Hashem/2
  ...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 ..."source">Daat Zekeinim</a><a href="DaatZekeinimShemot24" data-aht="source">Shemot 24</a><a href="Daat Zekeinim" data-aht="parshan">About Daat Zekeinim</a></m
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• Yitro – Names/2
  <p>Within a span of eleven verses in <a href="Shemot2-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 2:16-3:1</a>, the Torah introduces Zipporah's father / Moshe's <i>choten</i ...rce">Mekhilta DeRashbi</a><a href="MekhiltaDeRashbi18-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1</a><a href="Mekhilta DeRashbi" data-aht="parshan">About Mekhilta DeRas
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• Literary:Indicators of Achronology/0
  ...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 ...the nation's journey to Canaan (<a href="Shemot16-32-35" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:32-35</a>).</li>
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• Philosophy:Collective Punishment/2
  ...-aht="source">Shemot 12:29</a><a href="RashiShemot32-35" data-aht="source">Shemot 32:35</a><a href="RashiBemidbar16-22" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 16:22</a>< ...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
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• How Many Plagues Were There/2
  ..." data-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalShemot7-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 7:17</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Abo ...iculties from Shemot 8:19 and 10:1-2, it does not account for the cases in Tanakh in which "אוֹת" and "מוֹפֵת" appear as a pair and do not refer to
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• Purpose and Placement of the Incense Altar/2
  ...="source">Vilna Gaon</a><a href="VilnaGaonGRAShemot30-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 30:1</a><a href="R. Eliyahu of Vilna (Vilna Gaon – GR%22A)" data-aht="par <point><b>Evidence of this atoning role</b> – Several passages in Tanakh support the notion that the Incense Altar and and the offering of incense h
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• ANE:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East/0
  <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <category>Treaties in Tanakh
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• "עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן" – An Eye for an Eye/2
  ...of Yefet b. Eli in MGWJ (1897): 205 and Aharon b. Eliyahu in Keter Torah, Shemot p. 143. Ibn Ezra in his Short Commentary cites this position in the name of ...e principle of "מידה כנגד מידה", or "just deserts", is a dominant motif in Tanakh.<fn>It should be noted, though, that many of these instances are with regar
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• Prophetic Actions Without Explicit Divine Sanction/2
  ...aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="NetzivShemot32-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 32:27</a><a href="NetzivVayikra10-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:3</a><a h ...="source">Shemot 8:25-27</a> and <a href="Shemot9-29-33" data-aht="source">Shemot 9:29-33</a>.</fn> – According to this approach, despite the silence in th
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• Blessings and Curses – Over Which Commandments/2
  ...in reality the blessings and curses were given along with the Covenant of Shemot 24.&#160; As such they refer only to those commandments given at Sinai, tho ...data-aht="source">Rashbam</a><a href="RashbamShemot12-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:1</a><a href="RashbamVayikra25-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:1</a><a h
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• Haggadah:Bekhol Dor VaDor – Echoes of the Egyptian Exilic Experience/1/en
  ...rce">Shemot 1:7</a><a href="NetzivBemidbar23-9" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 23:9</a><a href="NetzivHaggadah" data-aht="source">Haggadah Shel Pesach "Vehi
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• Literary:Structural Devices/0
  <li><b>Laws of the Moadim</b>&#160;– Vayikra 23 opens: "...דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאָ <li><b>Melakhim I 20:23-25</b> – In discussing their previous defeat in war and upcoming battle,
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• Grammar:Person/0
  <p>At times Tanakh switches from speaking in second person to third person (or vice versa) whe ...e">Bereshit 49:4</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorShemot20-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:1</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Be
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• Purpose of the Plagues/2
  ...ht="source">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. Yitzc ...viewed by the Egyptians as a god.<fn>Tanchuma Vaera, Midrash Aggadah, and Shemot Rabbah similarly explain that Hashem chose to attack the Nile first for thi
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• Realia:Stones of the Choshen/0
  ...tps://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Olam_HaMikra/Shemot/28.17#m4e0n6">Olam HaMIkra Shemot 28</a>.</p></div> ...ht="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 href="Yechezkel28-13" data-aht="s
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• Philosophy:Miracles/2
  <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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• The Story of the Spies in Bemidbar and Devarim/2
  ...er of appearances of the entry in the unit and their relative frequency in Tanakh as a whole.</fn> of each chapter highlights their differing emphases.&#160; ...44:7, Shemot 4:17, 10:2, 11:1, Bemidbar 20:14, 21:13, Devarim 1:45, and 3:23 and the discussion in <a href="Invoking Hashem's Name Without Explicit Divi
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• Commentators:R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)/0
  <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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• MiMachorat HaShabbat/2
  ...href="YefetbElitheKaraiteVayikra23" data-aht="source">Yefet b. Eli Vayikra 23</a><a href="LevibYefettheKaraitetheKaraiteSeferHamitzvot2p404" data-aht="so ...ikra 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 a
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• Literary:Redundancy/0
  <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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• Lemekh's Monologue/2/en
  ...ra</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. Avraham ibn Ez ...though often in Tanakh the word "יֶלֶד" clearly refers to a baby or child (Shemot 2:3,10 and Shemuel II 12:15), at times it is used to connote a young adult.
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• The Decalogue: Direct From Hashem or Via Moshe/2/en
  ...ref="RAvrahamShemot20-1" data-aht="source">cited by R. Avraham b. HaRambam Shemot 20:1</a><a href="R. Avraham HeChasid" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham H ..."פָּנִים אֶל פָּנִים" appears regarding Hashem's communication with Moshe (Shemot 33:11, Devarim 34:10) and Yaakov and Gidon's encounters with angels (Beresh
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• Chronological and Thematic Order/2
  ...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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• Grammar:Tenses in Tanakh/0
  <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...he subject ("וַיֵּלֶךְ אַבְרָם" or "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה") . At times, though, Tanakh employs a form known as "עבר מהופך",&#160; beginning with the subje
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• Commentators:Prof. Umberto Cassuto/0
  <content>Commentaries on Bereshit and Shemot, Volumes on Ancient Near East and vs. Documentary Hypothesis, Editor of Enc ..., Jerusalem, 1967. For a review, see A. Cohen, "פירוש על ספר שמות", Tarbiz 23:2 (1952): 132-136.</fn></li>
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• Commentators:R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)/0
  <content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...eved.<fn>MS Parma 3204 (p. 259, preceding Rashbam's commentary on Iyyov 40:23 until the end) records that Yocheved was Rashbam's mother.</fn> His brother
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• Chronology – Shemot 18/2
  <h1>Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...ee his (earlier) <a href="BiurShemot18-27" data-aht="source">commentary to Shemot 18:27</a> where he proposes that Yitro's departure took place only in the s
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• Avraham's Prayer for Sedom/2/en
  ...ann</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit18-23-26" data-aht="source">Bereshit 18:23-26</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit19-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:29</ ...though, the word is masculine. See, for instance: Bereshit 30:2, Shemot 22:23, and 32:10.</fn></point>
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• Annihilating Amalek/2
  ...urce">Shemot 17 Questions</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot17" data-aht="source">Shemot 17</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim25" data-aht="source">Devarim 25</a><a href= ...-aht="source">Shemot 1:15</a><a href="ShadalShemot17-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:14</a><a href="ShadalDevarim25-12" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:12</a><a
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• Avraham and Yitzchak/0
  ...David (<a href="DivreiHaYamimI27-23" data-aht="source">Divrei HaYamim I 27:23</a>).</fn></li> ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a> for more.</fn> earns his own wealth, and pers
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• Why Were Nadav and Avihu Killed/2
  ...0" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiShemot24-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 24:10</a><a href="RashiVayikra10-1-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:1-3</a>< ...acle, it is possible that the brothers encountered it upon their entry.<fn>Shemot 40:35 records that when Hashem's glory filled the Tabernacle, even Moshe hi
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• Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim/1
  ...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 <li>The second section contains a commentary on a total of 23 Haftarot, which include the Haftarot for most of the festival days of Pesac
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• Why Permit Slavery/2
  ...source">R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschShemot12-44" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:44</a><a href="RSRHirschVayikra25-44" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:44</a ...>Herodotus</a> (4:2) speaks of how the Scythians would blind their slaves. Tanakh itself attests to similar treatment of captive slaves. See&#160;<a href="Sh
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• Moshe and Yehoshua/0
  ...f Hashem" in its last chapter.</fn>&#160; They are the only two leaders in Tanakh to merit the title.</li> ...ִּן נוּן וַיֹּאמֶר חֲזַק וֶאֱמָץ... וְאָנֹכִי אֶהְיֶה עִמָּךְ" (Devarim 31:23).</fn> &#160;</li>
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• Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah/2/en
  ...ht="source">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">Abo ...he parallel verse "וְאֵלֶּה הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תָּשִׂים לִפְנֵיהֶם" in Shemot 21:1 also refers to the giving of mitzvot, and this may underlie R. Yehuda'
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• Commentators:R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)/0
  ...a>, cited by C. Chavel as evidence that Ramban completed his commentary on Shemot after the age of seventy, may be a later addition to the commentary. If so, ...#SHE12-2" data-aht="page">12:2</a>, <a href="Commentators:Ramban's Updates/Shemot#SHE30-13" data-aht="page">30:13</a> (see also <a href="Commentators:Ramban'
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• Avraham's Prayer for Sedom/2/he
  ...it18-23-26" data-aht="source">רד״צ הופמן</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit18-23-26" data-aht="source">רד״צ הופמן בראשית י״ח:כ״ג-כ״ו ...though, the word is masculine. See, for instance: Bereshit 30:2, Shemot 22:23, and 32:10.</fn></point>
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• The Flood Story: Undoing and Redoing Creation/0/en
  ...rd is much more significant if the word appears only a handful of times in Tanakh than if it appears often. Similarly, if there is only a single word in Bibl ...t rather in the description of the ark floating on the water.</fn> only in Shemot 32:20 and Kohelet 11:1.</li>
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• Dictionary:Changing Meanings/0
  ...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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• The Births and Relative Ages of Yaakov's Children/2
  ...favors thematic order over chronological order<fn>For other examples where Tanakh might recount a story out of order in order to preserve thematic unity, see ..."source">Bereshit 38:1</a><a href="IbnEzraShemotLong2-2" data-aht="source">Shemot Long Commentary 2:2</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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• Arei Miklat – Cities of Refuge or Exile/2
  ...data-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalShemot21-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 21:12-13</a><a href="ShadalBemidbar35-12" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 35:12, ...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
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• Why Was Hashem Angry at Bilam/1/en
  ...recounting the story in <a href="Devarim23-4-7" data-aht="source">Devarim 23</a>,<fn>See also the similar formulation in <a href="Yehoshua24-9-10" data- ...righteous figures. For other examples where a seemingly neutral figure in Tanakh is painted black, see <a href="Nimrod" data-aht="page">Nimrod</a>, <a href=
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• Reward and Punishment/2
  ...aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot20-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:11</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra26-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:3</a>< ...s and punishments promised in&#160;<a href="Shemot15-26" data-aht="source">Shemot 15:26</a>,&#160; <a href="Vayikra26-3-12" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26</a>,
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• About:Who We Are/en
  <li><span class=link title="Professor of Tanakh, Bar Ilan University">Professor Yonatan Grossman</span></li> <li><span class=link title="Professor Emeritus of Tanakh, Haifa University">Professor Yeshayahu Maori ז"ל</span></li>
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• Collective Punishment for Akhan's Sin/2
  ...ed <b>them</b>..." ).&#160; Hoil Moshe explains that it is not unusual for Tanakh to switch from plural to singular and thus the reader need not learn that t ...ht="source">Sforno</a><a href="SfornoShemot23-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:21</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah Sforn
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• Why Was Hashem Angry at Bilam/2
  <point><b>Bilam's character</b> – According to&#160;Rambam, at this point in Tanakh, Bilam is a positive character, loyal and obedient to Hashem's word, as evi ...23:1</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar23-13" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 23:13</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar24-1-2" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 2
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• Purpose of the Pesach/2
  ...="source">Shemot 12:12-13</a><a href="SfornoShemot12-22" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:22-27</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah ...that the "destroyer" was a separate entity (distinct from Hashem)<fn>In 12:23 Moshe appears to tell the Israelites that Hashem will not permit ("וְלֹ
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• Commentators:R. Avraham ibn Ezra/0
  ...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 in the same ...second commentaries on Esther, Daniel, Tehillim, Bereshit, Shir HaShirim, Shemot, and Trei Asar while in Rouen, and his third commentary on Bereshit while i
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• Why Worry About Bilam/2
  ...rce">Ramban</a><a href="RambanBemidbar22-23" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 22:23</a><a href="RambanDevarim18-9" data-aht="source">Devarim 18:9-12</a><a href <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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• About:Who We Are/he
  <li><a title="Tanakh Department, Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School, Teaneck, NJ, Adjunct Professor a ...="Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan and Senior Lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College" href=#letter-Ziegler data-toggle=my-modal>ד"ר יעל �
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• Avraham's Guests – Angels or Men/2
  ...aite</a></multilink>.&#160; Ibn Ezra dismisses the question by pointing to Shemot 11:10, which attributes all the wonders in Egypt to Moshe and Aharon, despi ...erred to as Hashem after the One who sent him.<fn>He points to Bereshit 25:23 as another example where a prophet is called "Hashem".&#160; Cf. Rambam Mor
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• בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/2/en
  ...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 ...-aht="source">Shemot 21:6</a> and <a href="Shemot22-7-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 22:7-8</a>.</fn></li>
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• Philosophy:Theodicy – צדיק ורע לו/2
  ...t="page">Collective Punishment</a>.<fn>For analysis of specific stories in Tanakh see also&#160;<a href="Avraham's Prayer for Sedom" data-aht="page">Avraham' ..." data-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalShemot20-4" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:4</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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• David/0
  ...n>The word is difficult to define as it appears in only one other place in Tanakh, Tehillim 42:8.</fn> and what role did it play in David's plan?</p><ul> ...y's walls). This might be supported by the word's only other appearance in Tanakh, "תְּהוֹם אֶל תְּהוֹם קוֹרֵא לְקוֹל צִנּו
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• Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/2/en
  ...בני ישראל במצרים?&#8207;</a>", Bar Ilan University Weekly Parashah Sheet (Shemot 5761) who suggests that this position reflects a desire during the Roman pe ...Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz</a></multilink> and Tzeidah LaDerekh (on Rashi Shemot 2:14) attempt to the various opinions in the Bavli as coming to explain why
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• Test/2/en
  ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...RalbagBereshit32P23" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 32:23-32</a><a href="RalbagBereshit32T10" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32 Toelet 10
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• Test/2/he
  ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...RalbagBereshit32P23" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 32:23-32</a><a href="RalbagBereshit32T10" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32 Toelet 10
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• Duration of the Pre-Shemittah Blessing of the Produce/2
  ...25:20-22</a><a href="IbnEzraShemotSecondCommentary12-2" data-aht="source">Shemot Second Commentary 12:2</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan"> ...the first of Tishrei should be considered a New Year.<fn>The only place in Tanakh where the phrase "רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה" appears is <a href="Yechez
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• Wrestling With Angels and Men/2
  ...RalbagBereshit32P23" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 32:23-32</a><a href="RalbagBereshit32T10" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32 Toelet 10 ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr
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• Nature of the Chatat/2
  ...0-17" data-aht="source">50:17</a>, <a href="Shemot10-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:17</a>,&#160;<a href="Shemot32-20" data-aht="source">32:20</a> or <a hre ...ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ezra</a></multilink> on Shemot 12:7 who views the role played by the blood in the Pesach offering in a sim
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• Purpose of the Mishkan/2/en
  ...ta-aht="source">Shemot 36:8</a><a href="RYBSShemot38-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 38:21</a><a href="RYBSVayikra2-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 2:13</a><a hre ...aht="source">Shemot 29:46</a><a href="RambanShemot40-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 40:34</a><a href="RambanVayikraIntroduction" data-aht="source">Introduction
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• Mizmor 145: Transcendence and Immanence/0
  ...2, B. Lindars, “The Structure of Psalm CXLV”, Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989): 23-30 and R Kimelman, "Psalm 145: Theme, Structure, and Impact", JBL 113:1 (19 ...Hashem's thirteen attributes introduced in Shemot 32 and repeated often in Tanakh.&#160; Significantly, this list focuses only on those attributes which emph
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• Dictionary:Cognates and Loanwords/0
  ...: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" is
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• Moshe/0
  ...R. D"Z Hoffmann</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot20-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:1</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Z ...of these upcoming plagues. In the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf (Shemot 32), Moshe employs the name of God ("כֹּה אָמַר י"י") in command
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• Purpose of the Trumpet Blowing/2
  ...hem's aid found in other discussions of entry into the land such as Shemot 23:27-28.</fn></point> ...rn equivalents</b> – This position's understanding of the trumpet calls in Tanakh can be compared to the role played by bugle calls in the army, where differ
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• Concerns Regarding the Monarchy/2
  ...heir king rather than Hashem, it is similar to idolatry.<fn>See Rashbam on Shemot 16:4 who similarly points out that dependence on Hashem instills belief in ...ִמְשֹׁל בָּכֶם" (<a href="Shofetim8-22-23" data-aht="source">Shofetim 8:22-23</a>).</point>
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• Historical Setting of Tehillim 118/2
  ...es<fn>As we only have the commentary on the end of the chapter (from verse 23 on) it is difficult to know for certain how it would have explained the cha ...l the day is and pray that God should bring the nation future success (vs. 23-24). Each person then passes by the king, who greets them, "בָּרוּך�
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• Duration of the Egyptian Exile/2
  ...birth of Yitzchak), they could not have accounted for the later verses in Shemot 12:40-41 which mention the figure of 430 years.</fn></mekorot> ...for a full 430 years. To do so, they must posit that Moshe's genealogy in Shemot 6 omits several generations and includes only the more prominent personalit
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• Are Children Punished for Parents' Sins/2
  ...they attempt to present composite theories of how Divine justice works in Tanakh and throughout the course of history.</p> ...>Midrash Aggadah (Buber)</a><a href="AggadahShemot20-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:12</a><a href="Midrash Aggadah (Buber)" data-aht="parshan">About Midrash
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• Sale of the Birthright – A Fair Deal/2/en
  ...that the food was provided before the sale. See <a href="Grammar:Tenses in Tanakh" data-aht="page">Past Perfect</a>, though, that the form also sometimes mer ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a>.</fn> However, Rashbam does not account for t
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• Purpose of the Sacrifices/2
  ...source">Ralbag</a><a href="RalbagShemotBeurHaMilot29-10" data-aht="source">Shemot Beur HaMilot 29:10</a><a href="RalbagVayikra1-4" data-aht="source">Vayikra ...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 idolatr
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• Lemekh's Monologue/2/he
  ..." data-aht="source">טירת כסף פרק ראשון</a><a href="RYosefibnKaspiBereshit4-23-24" data-aht="source">בראשית ד׳:כ״ג-כ״ד</a><a href="R. Yosef ...though often in Tanakh the word "יֶלֶד" clearly refers to a baby or child (Shemot 2:3,10 and Shemuel II 12:15), at times it is used to connote a young adult.
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• Yosef/0
  ...f served the sons of the maidservants.<fn>As the word "נַעַר" elsewhere in Tanakh means servant, they assume that here the root is being used as a verb to me ...reshitFirstCommentary49-23" data-aht="source">Bereshit First Commentary 49:23</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ez
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• Commentators:R. Eliyahu of Vilna (Vilna Gaon – GR"A)/0
  <content>Aderet Eliyahu on Tanakh, Beur HaGRA</content> ...lept no more than two hours a day, half an hour at a time. See Etkes, Gaon:23 ff. for a discussion of the GRA’s piety, especially how it differed from
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• Yaakov's Blessing of Yosef/2
  ....<fn>Other examples can be found in <a href="Shemot15-6" data-aht="source">Shemot 15:6</a>, <a href="Tehillim92-10" data-aht="source">Tehillim 92:10</a>, <a ...l form "אֲשׁוּרֶנּוּ" in <a href="Bemidbar23-9" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 23:9</a>.&#160; An advantage of this explanation is that it allows for a consi
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• The Flood Story and Biblical Criticism/0/en
  ...data-aht="source">22</a>, and <a href="Bereshit7-21-24" data-aht="source">23</a>.</li> ...ource">7:21</a>) and "J" (<a href="Bereshit7-21-24" data-aht="source">7:22-23</a>).</li>
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• ANE:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East/5
  <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <source xmlid="Bereshit9-8-17" book="English Bereshit" ref="9,8,17" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/9.8$$e1">
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• Grammar:Tenses in Tanakh/5
  <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> <source xmlid="Bereshit1-29" book="English Bereshit" ref="1,29" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/1.29$$e1">
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