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The Roundabout Route and The Road Not Traveled/3
<p>These are some of the central points of dispute (נקודות המחלוקת) between the various exegetes:</p> <topic>Purpose of Yam Suf

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Akeidat Yitzchak in Art/0/en
<h1>Akeidat Yitzchak in Art</h1> ...vivid images also succeeds in raising awareness of some of the ambiguities of the Biblical text and their implications for understanding the episode.</di

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Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/1/en
<h1>Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage</h1> ...lish Study Guide:</a> <a class="pdf" href="/Media/2Shemot/01/Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/English Study Guide.pdf">PDF</a></p>

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Dictionary:דרש/0
<label>Part of Speech</label> ...ound, and this leads to different understandings of the manner and purpose of "seeking God."</p>

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Chronology – Shemot 18/3
<p>These are some of the central points of dispute (נקודות המחלוקת) between the various exegetes:</p> ...ne chapter removed from when they happened, and there are no dual accounts of the same story.</li>

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Chronology – Shemot 18/4
<p>The different reconstructions of the timeline for the events of Chapter 18 have many interesting ramifications for various other stories an ...arding the Yitro story only because he does not give a date for the giving of the Decalogue.</opinion>

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Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Vayera/0/en
...  On the other hand, it seems paradoxical to conceive of the founders of a religion not observing even its most basic commandments. </p> ...might lead one to suggest that the Avot did in fact observe at least some of the commandments?</li>

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Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak/1/en
<h1>Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak</h1> ...ption>(<a href="Akeidat Yitzchak in Art" data-aht="page">Click for Akeidat Yitzchak in Art</a>)</figcaption></figure>

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Literary Devices – Bereshit 12/0
...rary unit through the repetition of key phrases, and often implies a sense of harmony and consistency within the unit. The Avraham narratives are framed ...;">לֶךְ לְךָ</span>” (Bereshit 22:2) that introduce his last test (Akeidat Yitzchak).</li>

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Whom and Where Did the Plagues Strike/2
...expands the scope to from five to ten and maximizes the miraculous nature of the process. In order to do so, it must posit that there were many supernat ...alist commentators such as Ibn Ezra, Ralbag, and Ibn Kaspi limit the scope of the separation to only the five more severe plagues in which it is mentione

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Chronology – Shemot 18/1
...ing most commentators to opt for alternative readings. Let us examine some of these issues.</p> ...alek), it is a considerable challenge to also squeeze in all of the events of Chapter 18.</p>

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Why Conceal Esther's Nationality/2
...d have diminished her chances of becoming queen.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Lekach Tov and Ralbag suggest altruistic motives. Es ...hat religious observance in the palace would be easier if no one was aware of her religion.</p></div>

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Purpose of the Laws of Kashrut/2
<h1>Purpose of the Laws of Kashrut</h1> ...Israel from others, both minimizing contact and marking her as a "kingdom of priests."</div>

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Yaakov's Dividing of his Camp/2
<h1>Yaakov's Dividing of his Camp</h1> ...kes no mention of two camps and speaks only of the splitting and arranging of Yaakov's immediate family.</p>

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Philosophy:Collective Punishment/2
...ce">Bereshit 19:4</a><a href="RashiShemot11-5" data-aht="source">Shemot 11:5</a><a href="RashiShemot12-29" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:29</a><a href="Ra ...tice demands that each person be punished for their own sins and not those of another.</point>

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Dialogue with the Divine During Korach's Rebellion/2
...out the entire people, but Moshe made a mistake and, due to the ambiguity of the word "הָעֵדָה", simply misunderstood what Hashem had said. Ralba ...ekhet Machshevet, though, explains that the discussion focused on the fate of Korach's followers, and that Moshe failed in his attempt to invoke Divine m

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Avraham/0/en
...ggles, he maintains faith in Hashem's promises and perseveres. He is a man of both "חסד" and "אמת".  He is strong enough to reproach Hashem wh ...of the most pivotal episodes in Avraham's life and their varying portraits of his character and legacy.</p></div>

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Patterns in the Plagues/2
<p>All of the Plagues form one cohesive unit with unifying patterns.</p> ...due a rebellious country.<fn>Cf. Ralbag below.</fn> There is no indication of any internal division in this analogy.</point>

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A Three Day Journey/2/en
...rews perished in the Plague of Darkness, as it was only then that the rest of the nation merited complete redemption. Finally, R"Y Bekhor Shor suggests t ...but he proposes that the primary target of the deception was the Children of Israel themselves, who were not yet mentally prepared to leave Egypt perman

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Yitzchak/0
<h1>Yitzchak – Overview</h1> ...s legacy and passing it forward.  In the material realm, in contrast, Yitzchak paves his own way.  He exchanges his father's nomadic shepherding life

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Chronology – Shemot 18/2
...xegetes split the chapter and suggest various permutations for which parts of the story happened before the Decalogue and which occurred only later.</div ...the entire chapter is in its chronological place. There are two variations of this position:</p>

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Relationship Between Vayikra 1-5 and 6-7/2
<h1>Relationship Between Vayikra 1-5 and 6-7</h1> ...ashat Tzav revolves around the final stage, the allocation and consumption of the offering.</p>

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Purpose of the Plagues/2
<h1>Purpose of the Plagues</h1> ...rbanel</a></multilink><fn>Abarbanel maintains that the plagues held a dual purpose; they were both punitive and educative.</fn></mekorot>

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Yehuda's Oration/2
...reshit 44:21</a><a href="ShadalBereshit45-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 45:1</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">About R. ...er his deal to replace Binyamin, as it would not be adhering to the letter of the law.<fn>He compares this to offering a judge a bribe, which would only

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בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/2/en
...ment. The story appears in Tanakh only as a reaction to mythological tales of gods coupling with humans to form immortal beings.</p> ...of the intermingling of the corrupt line of Kayin with the righteous line of Shet.  As a result, Hashem decided to destroy the world and restart a

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Esther's Relations with Achashverosh/2
...oach argues that in the era or Mordechai and Esther, a blanket prohibition of intermarriage was not yet in existence.</p></div> ...ing to have Esther become queen to a heathen and compromise her observance of mitzvot.  It is not clear, however, how severe a sin he viewed the mar

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Permission to Eat Meat/2/en
...lbag asserts that meat was always permitted and is the natural food choice of humans.  On the other end, R. Yosef Albo claims that vegetarianism is ...ed to eat meat, he lost the privilege when he sinned by eating of the Tree of Knowledge, and it was restored only after his sin was atoned for though the

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Bizarre Prophetic Commands/2
...ds commanded of them. While the Rid does not attempt to mute the harshness of such commands, in many cases, Shadal reinterprets the directives in ways th <p>The various bizarre actions demanded of prophets took place only in prophetic visions.  They were meant to ser

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Wanted: A Wife for Yitzchak/2/en
<h1>Wanted: A Wife for Yitzchak</h1> ...Avraham's portrait of the ideal wife for Yitzchak, how the servant's plan of action fit with Avraham's instructions, and how contradictions between the

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Hardened Hearts/2/en
...change, or because, as idolaters, they were simply not bequeathed the gift of repentance.</p> ...osef Albo and Sforno go a step further, suggesting that Hashem's hardening of hearts is what actually allows for free will and true repentance. חיזו�

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Endangering Sarai in Egypt/2
...dak, thus, asserts that Avram acted unintentionally; he was simply unaware of the danger that his wife's beauty would bring to them in Egypt.  R. Ni ...srael and the endangering of Sarai, while Cassuto criticizes his deceiving of Paroh and the Egyptians.</p></div>

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Overview – Sefer Bereshit/0
<category>Structure of the Book ...1</b> speak of universal history: the creation, destruction and recreation of the world at large.</li>

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"עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן" – An Eye for an Eye/2
...o real life. Finally, the Hoil Moshe differentiates between the generation of former slaves to which the Torah was originally given and future, more civi ...t p. 143. Ibn Ezra in his Short Commentary cites this position in the name of the Karaites ("המכחישים").</fn>

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Revelation to the Elders at Sinai/2
...or in which they were privileged to see Hashem on a higher level than most of the nation.</p></div> ...granted a temporary stay of punishment, the elders at Sinai were deserving of death.  This position differs regarding why:</p>

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Yitro – Religious Identity/2
...r Yitro's theological beliefs undergo any transformation during the course of his life.</div> ...ations of this approach differ over whether this was a longstanding belief of Yitro or a more recent development following a career as an idol worshipper

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Moshe's Epitaph – Signs and Wonders/2
...their interpretations of other Biblical miracles and their understandings of the relationship between prophetic proficiency and signs and wonders.</p> ...ty.  On the opposite end, Sforno maintains that the verses speak only of Moshe's prophetic prowess, and that the miraculous events were merely the s

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Overview – Sefer Shemot/0/en
<category>Structure of the Book ...e Israelites transformed from a nation of slaves serving Paroh to a nation of free people serving Hashem.  It can be divided into three main section

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Rachel/0
...el's character. The page below will nonetheless attempt to draw a portrait of Rachel, looking at the many challenges she faced, at both her strengths and <p>Of all the Matriarchs, Rachel is the one most associated with motherhood. Seve

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The Roundabout Route and The Road Not Traveled/2
...ther baiting Paroh into chasing after the Israelites was a crucial element of the Divine master plan.</p> ...d the pitfalls of the alternative Philistine Route.  Finally, Akeidat Yitzchak and Abarbanel attempt to synthesize various approaches, combining the munda

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Permission to Eat Meat/2/he
...lbag asserts that meat was always permitted and is the natural food choice of humans.  On the other end, R. Yosef Albo claims that vegetarianism is ...ed to eat meat, he lost the privilege when he sinned by eating of the Tree of Knowledge, and it was restored only after his sin was atoned for though the

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Half Shekels – For Census or Tabernacle/2
...stances which mandate the donations detailed in Shemot 30:12-16. One group of commentators explain that the census is the determining factor. Within this ...sus and the Mishkan play a role, with Chizkuni positing that a combination of both a census and a capital campaign was required for there to be an obliga

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בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/2/he
...of the intermingling of the corrupt line of Kayin with the righteous line of Shet.  As a result, Hashem decided to destroy the world and restart a <category>Mingling of Angels and Humans

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Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/2/en
<h1>Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage</h1> ...experience. In doing so, exegetes use the Egyptian exile and the character of the Israelites in Egypt as a prism through which they view similar issues t

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Literary Devices – Shemot 18/0
<category>Structure of Chapter 18 ...(18:1-12) and Yitro's Advice (18:13-27). For more on the structural units of the chapter and their relationship, see <a href="Structure – Shemot 18" d

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Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes/2
<h1>Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes</h1> This topic is dedicated to the memory of father and daughter,<br/>

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Literary:Indicators of Achronology/0
<h1>Indicators of Achronology</h1> ...to a ruler's reign or years from some seminal event.)</fn> and appears out of order. A few examples follow:</p>

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Reparations and Despoiling Egypt/2/en
...he verb שאל in Biblical Hebrew, but is also impacted by the world outlooks of the various exegetes.</p> ...heir God. On the other hand, R. Saadia and Malbim look to the larger frame of the story, suggesting that the gifts served as reparations for the Israelit

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Purpose of the Pesach/2
<h1>Purpose of the Pesach</h1> ...tual relationship with Hashem. Jubilees and others adopt a literal reading of the verses and explain that the blood was aimed at the destroying angel who

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Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak/2/en
<h1>Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak</h1> ...ion, and that it was still uncertain that the chosen line would go through Yitzchak.</p>

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Avraham's Guests – Angels or Men/2
...y of the chapter, identifying the revelation of Hashem with the appearance of the angels.</p> ...ther the guests' visit nor Hashem's discussion with Avraham about the fate of Sedom taking place in the physical realm.</p></div>

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