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  • ...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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  • <h1>Tanakh &amp; 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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  • ....</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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  • <p><a href="Vayikra25-8-22" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25</a>&#160;is devoted entirely to the laws of Shemittah and Yovel.&#160; A ...xile,<fn>In fact, according to Rashbam, all of the blessings and curses of Vayikra 26 relate to only Shemittah and Yovel!&#160; See <a href="Blessings and Cur
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  • ...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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  • ...first appearance in <a href="Vayikra18-1-319-24" data-aht="source">Vayikra 18</a>:</p> <p><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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...="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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  • ...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 ...n>Other verses also imply that seeing Hashem might lead to death.&#160; In Vayikra 16:2, Hashem warns that Aharon may not enter the Inner Sanctum whenever he
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  • ...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>&#160;describes how as part of the day's service, the High Prie
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  • <p>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&amp;c2=Bemidbar:16"> here</a>.</li>
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  • ...tah year.&#160; 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><b>Purpose of blessings</b> – Unlike many other blessings in Tanakh, the blessing of increased produce serves not as a reward for observance, b
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  • ...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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  • ...></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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  • ...the scope of the legal sections referred to by the blessings and curses of Vayikra 26.&#160; 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.&#160; Ibn Ezra, in contrast, assumes that the passage is not written in it
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  • ...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&#160; <a href="Yitro – Names" data
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  • ...ys of consecration, as described in <a href="Vayikra8-8" data-aht="source">Vayikra 8:8</a>:</p> ...give some insight into the function of the Urim.&#160;<a href="Bemidbar27-18-21" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 27:21 </a>states that before Yehoshua was to
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  • <li>Vayikra – the end of the manuscript is missing, but parashot Tzav and Shimini wer ...s other commentaries also contain <i>Toalot</i>,<fn>Only the commentary on Vayikra divides the <i>Toalot</i> into <i>Shorashim</i>.</fn> but they combine the
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  • ...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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  • ...in Moshe's prayer in <a href="Bemidbar14-17" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 14:18</a>, where "אֵ-ל רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן",&#8206; "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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  • ...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>&#160; What does this suggest about how Has
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  • <p>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,&#160; Yeshayahu 66:8, Zecharya 14:10, Tehillim 104:5-6 (and see Radak ther
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  • ...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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  • ...ash? Which of these are attested to in Torah and which only in the rest of Tanakh?</p> ...ce">8:26</a>, and&#160;<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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  • ...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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  • .... 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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  • ...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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  • <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <category>Treaties in Tanakh
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  • ...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>&#160;– This approach would l
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  • ...">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>&#160;&#160; Ramban adds that the word takes the specific co
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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.&#160; However, in many
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  • ...d their bringing of an unauthorized offering or flame.&#160; 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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  • ...&#160; 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.&#160; See also <a href=
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  • ...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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  • ...ah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Bereshit:12:3-12:3&amp;c2=Bemidbar:22:6-22:6&amp;f=bc">Tanakh Lab</a> to compare Bereshit 12:3 and Bemidbar 22:6. In the former, Hashem p <li>See&#160;<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Biblical_Parallels/Shemot/18.10#m5e3n6">Makbilot Bamikra</a> for&#160; a list of links to verse which de
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  • <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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  • ...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.&#160; See, though, Salmon b. Yerucham and Aharon b. Yosef wh
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  • ...ltilink> #2,<fn>See his comments to Devarim 12.&#160; 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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  • <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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  • ...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:&#160; Verses 18-22 detail the in-gathering of exiles (matching "מִהֲרוּ בָּנָי
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  • ...לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן" (<a href="Bereshit14-13-24" data-aht="source">Bereshit 14:18</a>):</p><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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  • ...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</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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <p>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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  • ...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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