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Dictionary:נבל/0
...ce">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. Cassut <li>Forms of the verb נבל or the noun נבלה appear in Tanakh in reference to humans, animals, and plants:

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Tanakh and the Ancient Near East Index – Parashat Acharei Mot/0
<h1>Tanakh & the Ancient Near East Index – Parashat Acharei Mot</h1> ...ontains a list of links to articles which touch on the connections between Tanakh and ancient cultures.</div>

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Philosophy:Anthropomorphism/1
....</fn> and actions.<fn>Hashem speaks (throughout Tanakh), sees (throughout Tanakh), smells (Bereshit 8:21), hears (Bemidbar 11:1), sits (Yeshayhu 6:1), stand

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Nature of the Pre-Shemittah Blessing of the Produce/1/en
<a href="Vayikra25-8-22" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25</a> is devoted entirely to the laws of Shemittah and Yovel.  A ...xile,<fn>In fact, according to Rashbam, all of the blessings and curses of Vayikra 26 relate to only Shemittah and Yovel!  See <a href="Blessings and Cur

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Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Bechukotai/0/en
...n their wake? In the curses of <a href="Vayikra26-38-41" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26</a>, the Torah describes how, after an initial punishment, the people wi ...ht="source">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraVayikra26-40-41" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:40-41</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avrah

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Giving One's Seed to Molekh/1/en
...first appearance in <a href="Vayikra18-1-319-24" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18</a>: <a href="Vayikra20-1-6" data-aht="source">Vayikra 20</a> then follows up with the punishment meted out to those who engage in

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Dictionary:חָתָן/0
...Bereshit 38:11,16,24,</a> <a href="Vayikra18-15" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:15</a>, <a href="Vayikra20-12" data-aht="source">20:12</a> and <a href="She ...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 bride

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Dictionary:שלח/0
<li>Various forms of the verb שלח appear over 800 times in Tanakh, and all of the forms are related to the same basic meaning of sending.</li ...tionary:גרש – גרושה" data-aht="page">גרושה</a> to refer to a divorcee (see Vayikra 21:14, 22:13, Bemidbar 30:10, Yechezkel 44:22, 45:9).</fn></li>

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Manifold Punishment/1/en
...ats four times:<fn>See <a href="Vayikra26-18" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:18</a>, <a href="Vayikra26-21" data-aht="source">21</a>, <a href="Vayikra26-24 ...rtain crimes (perhaps those of a repeat offender, as might be gleaned from Vayikra)?

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Giving One's Seed to Molekh/2
...="source">Ramban</a><a href="RambanVayikra18-21" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:21</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan ...Canaanites.<fn>See <a href="Vayikra18-1-319-24" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:3</a>: "כְּמַעֲשֵׂה אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם אֲשֶׁר �

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Seeing Hashem/1
...it26-2" data-aht="source">Bereshit 26:2</a>.  In all of these verses, Tanakh uses the formulation, "'וַיֵּרָא י״י אֶל" rather than ...n>Other verses also imply that seeing Hashem might lead to death.  In Vayikra 16:2, Hashem warns that Aharon may not enter the Inner Sanctum whenever he

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Purpose and Placement of the Incense Altar/1/en
...tion of the command is highlighted when one compares the Masoretic text of Tanakh with the Samaritan Pentateuch and one of the Qumran scrolls (4QpaleoEx) whi <li><a href="Vayikra16-12-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 16:12-13</a> describes how as part of the day's service, the High Prie

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Biblical Parallels Index – Bemidbar 16-17/0
The 250 followers of Korach, Nadav and Avihu (Vayikra 10), and King Uziyahu (Divrei HaYamim II 26) are all punished in connection ...shown.</fn> Compare the two<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Vayikra:10:1-10:5&c2=Bemidbar:16"> here</a>.</li>

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Nature of the Pre-Shemittah Blessing of the Produce/2
...tah year.  These affect not only how one reads the relevant verses in Vayikra 25, but also how one understands Hashem's goals in conferring blessings and <point>Purpose of blessings – Unlike many other blessings in Tanakh, the blessing of increased produce serves not as a reward for observance, b

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Manifold Punishment/2
...Keli Yekar</a><a href="KeliYekarVayikra26-18" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:18</a><a href="R. Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz (Keli Yekar)" data-aht="parshan"> ...nt for sins. This is the exact context in which the manifold punishment in Vayikra is mentioned. Hashem threatens the nation, "וְאִם תֵּלְכוּ ע�

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Adding and Subtracting from Torah/1
...></multilink> learns from <a href="Vayikra18-30" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:30</a>, "וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם אֶת מִשְׁמַרְתִּי", tha ...se are forbidden (<a href="MelakhimI18-31-38" data-aht="source">Melakhim I 18:32</a>), and Esther creates an entirely new holiday (<a href="Esther9-20-32

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Blessings and Curses – Over Which Commandments/2
...the scope of the legal sections referred to by the blessings and curses of Vayikra 26.  On one end of the spectrum, Rashbam suggests that they relate to ...blessings and curses cover all the laws from Parashat Yitro through Sefer Vayikra.  Ibn Ezra, in contrast, assumes that the passage is not written in it

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Commentators:Character Consolidation/1
...data-aht="source">1:3</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink></li> ...;<multilink><a href="#" data-aht="source">Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Shemot 18:1</a></multilink>. For discussion, see  <a href="Yitro – Names" data

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Urim VeTummim/1
...ys of consecration, as described in <a href="Vayikra8-8" data-aht="source">Vayikra 8:8</a>: ...give some insight into the function of the Urim. <a href="Bemidbar27-18-21" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 27:21 </a>states that before Yehoshua was to

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Commentators:R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)/0
<li>Vayikra – the end of the manuscript is missing, but parashot Tzav and Shimini wer ...s other commentaries also contain Toalot,<fn>Only the commentary on Vayikra divides the Toalot into Shorashim.</fn> but they combine the

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Cursing Canaan/2/en
...ce">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 Sforn ...data-aht="source">6:10</a>, <a href="Bereshit9-18-27" data-aht="source">9:18 </a>and <a href="Bereshit10-1-26-721-22" data-aht="source">10:1</a>), they

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Are Children Punished for Parents' Sins/1/en
...in Moshe's prayer in <a href="Bemidbar14-17" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 14:18</a>, where "אֵ-ל רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן",‎ "וֶאֱמֶ� ...a-aht="source">HaMeamer</a><a href="HaMeamerVayikra20-5" data-aht="source">Vayikra 20:5</a><a href="R. Meir Wolf (HaMeamer)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Meir

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Yaakov's Dividing of his Camp/1
...r instances, where the term "עַם" may refer to family, see Bereshit 19:38, Vayikra 21:1, and Bereshit 25:8,17, 35:29, and 49:29,33.</fn> or merely his entoura ...punishment for sinful behavior (e.g. Shemuel I 14:37 and 28:6, Shemuel I 8:18, Mikhah 3:4, Mishlei 1:28).</fn>  What does this suggest about how Has

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Grammar:Gender/0
There are several words In Tanakh which are treated as both masculine and feminine, at times taking a masculi ...Bereshit 13:6 (and compare Rashbam, Ibn Ezra and Radak there), Yeshayahu 9:18,  Yeshayahu 66:8, Zecharya 14:10, Tehillim 104:5-6 (and see Radak ther

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"עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן" – An Eye for an Eye/2
...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 ..."source">Shemot 21:18</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra24-10" data-aht="source">Vayikra 24:10</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim19-14" data-aht="source">Devarim 19:14</a

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Service of the Levites/0
...ash? Which of these are attested to in Torah and which only in the rest of Tanakh? ...ce">8:26</a>, and <a href="Bemidbar18-1-6" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 18:1-5</a> all speak of the Levites' role in guarding the Tabernacle. Many ver

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Yitro – Religious Identity/2
...she marries Zipporah and shepherds Yitro's flock, and then again in Shemot 18 when Yitro comes to visit Moshe in the wilderness. At each of these critica ...Saadia 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

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Nature of the Asham/2
.... D"Z Hoffmann</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannVayikra5-17" data-aht="source">Vayikra 5:17</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Z ...ncur liability or feel guilt (as in <a href="Vayikra5-5" data-aht="source">Vayikra 5:5</a>), or alternatively, to be punished. As a noun, outside of the culti

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Duration of the Pre-Shemittah Blessing of the Produce/2
...kra25" data-aht="source">Biur</a><a href="BiurVayikra25" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25</a><a href="Biur (Netivot HaShalom)" data-aht="parshan">About the Biur ( ...-aht="source">HaMeamer</a><a href="HaMeamerVayikra25-20" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:20</a><a href="R. Meir Wolf (HaMeamer)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Meir

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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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Prophetic Actions Without Explicit Divine Sanction/2
...aht="source">Shemot 32:27</a><a href="NetzivVayikra10-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:3</a><a href="NetzivBemidbar16-417" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 16:4, 17< <li><a href="ShemuelI12-16-18" data-aht="source">Shemuel bringing rain</a> – This approach would l

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Nature of the Chatat/2
...">Vayikra Toalot 1:4</a><a href="RalbagVayikraToalot4-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra Toalot 4:1</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="p ...0" data-aht="source">32:20</a> or <a href="Vayikra26-21" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:21</a>.</fn>   Ramban adds that the word takes the specific co

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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 ...ht="source">Vayikra 9:23</a><a href="RashbamVayikra16-2" data-aht="source">Vayikra 16:2</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About R.

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Cursing Canaan/2/he
...fornoBereshit9-18-27" data-aht="source">ספורנו</a><a href="SfornoBereshit9-18-27" data-aht="source">בראשית ט':י"ח-כ"ז</a><a href="R. Ovadyah S ...data-aht="source">6:10</a>, <a href="Bereshit9-18-27" data-aht="source">9:18 </a>and <a href="Bereshit10-1-26-721-22" data-aht="source">10:1</a>), they

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Tzara'at/2/en
...ht="source">Vayikra 13:2</a><a href="RSRHirschVayikra13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 13</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Samson ...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

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Why Were Nadav and Avihu Killed/2
...d their bringing of an unauthorized offering or flame.  An opinion in Vayikra Rabbah, in contrast, suggests that Nadav and Avihu suffered a vicarious pun ...aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra10-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:1</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzcha

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Overview – Sefer Yonah/0
...  Use the <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Yonah/1/1/1/16">Tanakh Lab</a> to explore related forms of the word "ירא" and other guiding wor ...Compare Yonah 3-4:2 with <a href="Yoel2-12-18" data-aht="source">Yoel 2:12-18</a>, noting both the parallel language and message.  See also <a href=

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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 ...of people's relative ages as provided by genealogy lists, time markers,<fn>Tanakh will sometimes date an event to a certain year in an individual's life.&#16

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Biblical Parallels Index – Bemidbar 22-24/0
...ah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Bereshit: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 p <li>See <a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Biblical_Parallels/Shemot/18.10#m5e3n6">Makbilot Bamikra</a> for  a list of links to verse which de

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Literary:Redundancy/0
Tanakh, like many written works, is filled with repetitions. Sometimes verses repe Some cases of repetition in Tanakh might be accounted for by the principle commonly known as a "כלל ופר�

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MiMachorat HaShabbat/2
...0</a><a href="YefetbElitheKaraiteVayikra23" data-aht="source">Yefet b. Eli Vayikra 23</a><a href="LevibYefettheKaraitetheKaraiteSeferHamitzvot2p404" data-aht= ...5 or Vayikra 23:3, and the opinion below which takes this understanding in Vayikra 23:15 as well.  See, though, Salmon b. Yerucham and Aharon b. Yosef wh

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Prohibition of Blood/2
...ltilink> #2,<fn>See his comments to Devarim 12.  In his commentary on Vayikra 3 and 17, R. Hoffmann also suggests that the prohibition relates to the fac ...the phrase appear four times in <a href="Vayikra17-1-14" data-aht="source">Vayikra 17</a> (twice in verse 11 and twice in verse 14) and once more in <a href="

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Commentators:R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)/0
<content>Commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud, Sifrut Debei Rashi</content> <li>Biblical commentaries – Rashi wrote commentaries on all of Tanakh.</li>

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"מְהָרְסַיִךְ וּמַחֲרִיבַיִךְ מִמֵּךְ יֵצֵאוּ"/2
...e word "יֵצֵאוּ" to mean "depart", in line with the word's common usage in Tanakh.</point> ...in the verse are elaborated upon in the rest of the prophecy:  Verses 18-22 detail the in-gathering of exiles (matching "מִהֲרוּ בָּנָי

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Avraham/0/en
...לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן" (<a href="Bereshit14-13-24" data-aht="source">Bereshit 14:18</a>):<ul> ...ource">Radak</a><a href="RadakBereshit14-18" data-aht="source">Bereshit 14:18</a><a href="R. David Kimchi (Radak)" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Kimc

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Philosophy:Collective Punishment/2
...Tanchuma (Buber)</a><a href="TanchumaBuberNoach18" data-aht="source">Noach 18</a><a href="Tanchuma" data-aht="parshan">About the Tanchuma</a></multilink> ...e punishment – 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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Adding and Subtracting from Torah/2
...ism and atheism, but it is doubtful whether atheism existed in the time of Tanakh.</fn></li> ...source">Vayikra 19:19</a><a href="HoilMosheVayikra24-19" data-aht="source">Vayikra 24:19</a><a href="HoilMosheBemidbar15-23" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 15:23<

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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 Tanakh will often prefer thematic ordering over strict chronology, juxtaposing rel

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Dictionary:עָרֹב/0
The word "עָרֹב" appears in only three places in Tanakh: <a href="Shemot8-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:16-28</a>, <a href="Tehill ...t="source">Ramban</a><a href="RambanShemot8-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 8:18</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan">A

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Divine Plans and Israelite Free Choice/2
...e Akeidah and Abarbanel make this same point about several other verses in Tanakh which describe the descent to Egypt as initiated by Yaakov and his family a ...">Shemot 12:40</a><a href="KeliYekarVayikra18-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18:3</a><a href="R. Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz (Keli Yekar)" data-aht="parshan

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Commentators:R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)/0
<content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...b>Biblical commentaries – Rashbam wrote a commentary on most or all of Tanakh. See below regarding his Torah commentary. Commentaries of Rashbam on Tehil

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Avraham's Guests – Angels or Men/2
...aham was distinct from and chronologically preceded Hashem's revelation in 18:1. ...ef="RalbagBereshit18P1" data-aht="source">Beiur Divrei HaParashah Bereshit 18:1,2-8,9-10,13-14,16,17-19,20-21,22,33</a><a href="RalbagBereshit19P27" data

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Annihilating Amalek/2
...evarim 25:17</a><a href="RHirschDevarim25-18" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:18</a><a href="RHirschDevarim25-19" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:19</a><a href ...ָלֵק") serves as a heading for the three actions of Amalek listed in verse 18: how Amalek happened upon Israel ("אֲשֶׁר קָרְךָ בַּדֶּר

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Collective Punishment for Akhan's Sin/2
...ed them..." ).  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 ...hoshua 7:24</a><a href="RalbagYehoshua22-18" data-aht="source">Yehoshua 22:18</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="parshan">Abo

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Commentators:R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)/0
...ref="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.985921&lon=2.825324&zoom=18&layers=M">Gerona</a>.<fn>It is unclear where he studied with his teache ...ource">Pesachim 117b</a></multilink> and Makkot 2a, Meiri Magen Avot 1 (p. 18), Ran Ketubot 74a, Shittah Mekubetzet Bava Batra 82a.</fn> and R. Natan b.

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Did Shemuel Come Back to Life/2
...ata-aht="source">26:7</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaBuberEmor4" data-aht="s ...">Vayikra 19:31</a><a href="IbnEzraDevarim18-11" data-aht="source">Devarim 18:11</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn

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Eliyahu's Death/2
...ֲשֶׁר לֹא אֵדָע" (<a href="MelakhimI18-11-12" data-aht="source">Melakhim I 18:12</a>) might suggest that this episode was not totally unique as throughou ...erm to describe death, and has that connotation in several other places in Tanakh as well. See, for example, Yechezkel 24:15 where Hashem tells the prophet,

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Reward and Punishment/2
...="source">Shemot 20:11</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra26-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:3</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim4-15" data-aht="source">Devarim 4:15</a><a ...source">Shemot 15:26</a>,  <a href="Vayikra26-3-12" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26</a>, <a href="Devarim7-11-16" data-aht="source">Devarim 7:11-16</a>

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Why Was the Ark Taken/2
<point>Was this forbidden? There are many verses in Tanakh which imply that it is permitted to take the ark to battle,<fn>For example, ...to the idol of Michah as evidence of idolatry during this era, as Shofetim 18:31 notes that Mikhah's idol existed for as long as the Mishkan was in Shilo

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Purpose of the Sacrifices/2
...rce">Bereshit 8:20</a><a href="RYosefibnKaspiVayikra1-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 1:1</a><a href="R. Yosef ibn Kaspi" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef ibn K ...ent of those who eat blood and those who give of their seed to the Molekh (Vayikra 20),  "וְנָתַתִּי אֶת פָּנַי בַּנֶּפֶשׁ �

61 KB (9,056 words) - 12:09, 28 January 2023
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:

158 KB (21,927 words) - 04:08, 3 April 2024
Epilogue to the Manna Story/2
...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, 11:2 and 14:2.  See also <a href="I ...he's death and are nonetheless included as an epilogue to other stories in Tanakh have been explained similarly:  

23 KB (3,534 words) - 12:28, 28 January 2023
Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah/2/en
.../a>, <a href="Chronology – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology of Shemot 18</a> and <a href="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">Moshe's ...to sweeten the waters of Marah is the "tree of life/Torah" (see Mishlei 3:18). This approach is taken by the "דורשי רשומות" and Rashbi in the

57 KB (8,236 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
Revelation to the Elders at Sinai/2
...ta-aht="source">20:10</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PesiktaDeRavKahana26-9" data-ah ...is how Rashi appears to understand the verse.</fn> or metaphorical,<fn>See Vayikra Rabbah, Pesikta DeRav Kahana, and Tanchuma.</fn> but all agree that it sign

37 KB (5,448 words) - 11:23, 28 January 2023
Why Did Yonah Disobey Hashem/2
<point>Comparison to Eliyahu – The only other case in Tanakh in which a prophet appears to successfully effect change in the people is E ...a-aht="source">Tanchuma #2</a><a href="TanchumaVayikra8" data-aht="source">Vayikra 8</a><a href="Tanchuma" data-aht="parshan">About the Tanchuma</a></multilin

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Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim/1
...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 ...0">20</a>.</fn> Shemuel I 1:3 ("ומפתרון זה אל תט ימין ושמאל"), Yeshayahu 8:18 ("ומן הפתרון הזה לא תטה ימין ושמאל"), Yeshayahu 1

27 KB (4,012 words) - 22:23, 6 May 2024
Literary:Structural Devices/0
<li>Laws of the Moadim – Vayikra 23 opens: "...דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְ� <li>Shemuel I 18:20-28 – The story of Michal's marriage to David is sandwiched by ment

30 KB (3,667 words) - 05:44, 9 February 2024
Why Worry About Bilam/2
...e">Bemidbar 22:23</a><a href="RambanDevarim18-9" data-aht="source">Devarim 18:9-12</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parsh <point>Parallel cases – There are many stories in Tanakh which suggest that there is real power in blessings/ curses or other magica

25 KB (4,042 words) - 12:59, 28 January 2023
Commentators:R. Avraham ibn Ezra/0
...e first period his primary literary output was in the field of poetry. His Tanakh commentaries, grammatical treatises, and other works were written in the la ...mot 31:3), Ezra-Nechemyah (see IE Devarim 23:2) and Divrei HaYamim (see IE Vayikra 26:34).</fn> but these works have not survived.<fn>U. Simon, "Abraham Ibn E

93 KB (12,083 words) - 08:00, 14 August 2023
Moshe/0
...t="source">Devarim 34:10-12</a><a href="RalbagSheminiT9" data-aht="source">Vayikra Toalot 10</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="pa ...olaters. However, no record exists of any such explicit Divine command. In Vayikra 9, after the consecration of the Mishkan, Moshe directs Aharon regarding se

88 KB (13,049 words) - 05:58, 13 February 2024
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

88 KB (12,486 words) - 07:18, 3 October 2023
Purpose of the Mishkan/2/en
...a-aht="source">Shemot 38:21</a><a href="RYBSVayikra2-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 2:13</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Be ...4</a><a href="RambanVayikraIntroduction" data-aht="source">Introduction to Vayikra</a><a href="RambanBemidbarIntroduction" data-aht="source">Introduction to B

61 KB (9,609 words) - 11:45, 28 January 2023
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. ...Devarim 24:16</a><a href="KaspiYechezkel18-19" data-aht="source">Yechezkel 18:19</a><a href="R. Yosef ibn Kaspi" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef ibn Ka

153 KB (23,303 words) - 11:55, 28 January 2023
"לֹא תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ"/2
...prohibition to that of "אֹתוֹ וְאֶת בְּנוֹ לֹא תִשְׁחֲטוּ בְּיוֹם אֶחָד" (Vayikra 22:28) and "שילוח הקן" (Devarim 22:6-7).<fn>These laws similarly de ..." might be supported by <a href="Bemidbar18-12" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 18:12</a>. However, the word "אִמּוֹ" as a reference to the tree is some

33 KB (4,942 words) - 11:34, 28 January 2023
The Flood Story: Undoing and Redoing Creation/0/en
...tp://www.etzion.org.il/vbm/update_views.php?num=9744&file=/vbm/archive/18-parsha/02noah.doc">here</a> with modifications), R. J. Berman, "המחדש ...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

41 KB (4,275 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/2/en
...ata-aht="source">11:5</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PsJBereshit15-13" data-aht="sou ...ayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>,<fn>Vayikra Rabbah, Tanchuma, and Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer all note that "‏יָדֹ

76 KB (11,772 words) - 11:28, 28 January 2023
Wanted: A Wife for Yitzchak/2/en
...word is a hapax legomenon (a word which appears only once in all of Tanakh) whose meaning is debated by commentators.  See, for example, the disc ...ka's "וַתְּמַהֵר... וַתָּרָץ" and Avraham's "וַיְמַהֵר... רָץ" in Bereshit 18).</li></ul></fn> Shadal, in contrast, suggests that the servant was request

36 KB (5,578 words) - 23:19, 8 November 2023
Purpose of the Pesach/2
...aht="source">Shemot Rabbah</a><a href="ShemotRabbah18-7" data-aht="source">18:7</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></mu ...aud also points to the priests of the Ba'al cutting themselves in Kings II 18:28, "עַד שְׁפָךְ דָּם עֲלֵיהֶם" as a preventative mea

68 KB (10,448 words) - 12:30, 28 January 2023
The Decalogue: Direct From Hashem or Via Moshe/2/en
...ource">Sefer HaIkkarim</a><a href="SeferHaIkkarim1-18" data-aht="source">1:18</a><a href="Sefer HaIkkarim" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Albo</a></mu ...varim 5:4-5).  The phrase "פָּנִים בְּפָנִים" appears nowhere else in Tanakh, while the similar expression "פָּנִים אֶל פָּנִים" appear

52 KB (7,576 words) - 12:14, 1 November 2023
Yeshayahu's Mission in Chapter 6/2
...enty years, and only after they mocked his prophecies (<a href="Yeshayahu5-18-20" data-aht="source">Yeshayahu 5:19</a>), proving Hashem's words correct, ...sing him of all sins and purifying his mouth.<fn>Shadal points out that in Tanakh, purification often takes place via fire. Thus, here too, Hashem places a b

35 KB (4,810 words) - 11:44, 11 January 2020
Philosophy:Theodicy – צדיק ורע לו/2
...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' ...:17</a><a href="RambamMorehNevukhim318" data-aht="source">Moreh Nevukhim 3:18</a><a href="RambamMorehNevukhim323" data-aht="source">Moreh Nevukhim 3:23</

66 KB (10,151 words) - 01:04, 2 December 2020
Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak/2/en
...9-25" data-aht="source">17:19-25</a><a href="Jubilees18" data-aht="source">18</a><a href="Jubilees" data-aht="parshan">About Jubilees</a></multilink>, <m ...Vayikra 25:17</a>, and <a href="Devarim25-18" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:18</a>. See N. Leibowitz, Iyyunim Chadashim BeSefer Shemot (Jerusalem, 1970):

57 KB (8,467 words) - 12:03, 28 January 2023
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">

127 KB (11,622 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2020

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