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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 36/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 36</h1> ...(Bereshit 36:6-8) parallels the separations of other sets of relatives in Tanakh.</p>
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• Philosophy:Anthropomorphism/1
  ...dbar 11:1), sits (Yeshayhu 6:1), stands (Shemot 17:6), remembers (Bereshit 8:1), and sleeps (Tehillim 78:65).</fn>^<br/></p> <p>Perhaps the most explicit verse is Bereshit 1:26-27:</p>
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• Words with Multiple Meanings/0
  ...#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.&#160;&#160; See also the phrase&#160; "לאל ידם" in Bereshit 31:29 and Mikhah 2:1 which means the power of their hands.</li>
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• Puzzles – Shemot 18/0
  <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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• 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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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 30/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 30</h1> <li>In verse 8, when naming Naftali, Rachel says, "mighty struggles i have struggled with
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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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• Graphical Concordance Demo/0
  ...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="file
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 44/0
  <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 and
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• Dictionary:חָתָן/0
  ...-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 bride
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• Commentators:R. David Zvi Hoffmann/0
  <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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 42/0
  <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 with
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• Joseph in Music/0
  ...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 בָ
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9/0
  <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 to
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 18/0
  <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 Avra
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 33/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 33</h1> ...y, despite his fears, Esav does in fact refer to Yaakov as "my brother" in Bereshit 33:9.&#160; See Rashbam that throughout the story Esav had no evil intent;
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 33/0
  <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.&#160; [In the&#160;<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/TanakhLab/Bereshit/18/1/18/33">Lab</a> click on the Torah icon to find a list of linguisticall
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 32/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 32</h1> ...y, despite his fears, Esav does in fact refer to Yaakov as "my brother" in Bereshit 33:9.&#160; See Rashbam that throughout the story Esav had no evil intent;
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 3/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 3</h1> ...0;– Use the concordance to see how the word and phrase are used throughout Tanakh.</p>
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• Avraham and Iyyov/0
  ...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 of
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 1/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 1</h1> <category name="Bereshit 1 and 2">
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 22/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 22</h1> ...heless, an interesting contrast can be found between Bereshit 22:17-18 and Bereshit 3:16-17.&#160; While Avraham is told that his progeny will multiply, Chavva
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 12/0
  <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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 6-9/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 6–9</h1> ...=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjpieDdp96AAxX0g_0HHdakD2QQFnoECA0QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fw
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• Dictionary:חֹתֵן – חֹתֶנֶת/0
  ...-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:חָת
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 39/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 39</h1> <li>Bereshit 39 begins (verses 2-5) and ends (verses 21-23) with statements that God was
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• Yitro – Religious Identity/1
  <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 hr
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• Yaakov's Dividing of his Camp/1
  <p>Bereshit 32 describes Yaakov's preparations for his encounter with Esav.&#160; After <q xml:lang="en">(8) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the peopl
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 22/0
  <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>
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• The Flood and the Destruction of Nineveh/0
  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,
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• Rachel and Channah/0
  The Book of Shemuel is replete with parallels to the Book of Bereshit.&#160; 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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 49/0
  <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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 23/0
  <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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 11/0
  <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 ear
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• Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Vayishlach/0/en
  ...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 with
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• Encounters with Foreign Leaders/0
  <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>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9/0
  <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9</h1> <category name="Bereshit 1 and 6-9">
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 2-3/0
  <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>
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 34/0
  <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 times
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• Dictionary:דרש/0
  ...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 &#8207;דר�
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 7-11/0
  ...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">An
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 16/0
  <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 16</h1> <p>In Bereshit 16, there is an interplay between words relating to sight (“ראה” and
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• Wrestling With Angels and Men/1/en
  <p>The bulk of&#160;<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>
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• Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/1/en
  ...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 R
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 1/0
  ...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 Shemo
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• Divine Plurals/2
  ...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.]&#160; Hashem does not speak to the angels about creating man,
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 39-40/0
  ...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&#160;
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 43/0
  <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 "Charact
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• Seeing Hashem/1
  ...it26-2" data-aht="source">Bereshit 26:2</a>.&#160; In all of these verses, Tanakh uses the formulation, "'<b>וַיֵּרָא</b> י״י אֶל" rather than ...ַּפֹּרֶת."&#160; 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>
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• Lot Flees Sedom in Art/0/en
  ...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"&#8206; / "אֲנָש�
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