https://judaism.codidact.com/categories/32/tags/3353.rssNew Posts Tagged 'history' - JudaismJudaism - Codidact2022-10-04T13:37:27Zhttps://judaism.codidact.com/posts/287150When was "Melech Elyon" first truncated, and why?Mithicalhttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/80822022-10-04T08:30:35Z2022-10-04T13:37:27Z<p>During Rosh Hashana davening, there's a piyut (liturgical poem) that appears before Untaneh Tokef, that begins "מלך עליון" (Melech Elyon). The commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, in the Kor...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/279567The encampments in the midbarrosendshttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/530312020-11-25T15:51:06Z2022-06-26T17:45:40Z<p>Is there a list of all the stops that Bnei Yisrael made after leaving Egypt (in chronological order), and how long they stayed in each place, especially one which lists different opinions about ...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/286642How long did it take to set up the mishkan?Monica Celliohttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/80462022-06-26T17:37:34Z2022-06-26T17:37:34Z<p>When Yisrael spent 40 years in the wilderness, they sometimes camped for longer periods of times and sometimes for shorter ones, sometimes even just two days (Bamidbar 9:21 -22):</p>
<blockquot...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/284625Zacuto's Sefer Yuchsin translation runters32https://judaism.codidact.com/users/545962021-10-18T18:05:59Z2021-10-19T14:45:16Z<p>The English translation of Sefer Yuchsin by Israel Shamir, the Holocaust denier and anti-Semite, is that a complete unabridged translation of the entire Hebrew sefer by Zacuto?</p>
<!-- g: js, ...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/278839Was Sigd part of historical Jewish observance?Monica Celliohttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/80462020-10-27T19:16:58Z2020-10-27T19:16:58Z<p>I noticed that my (paper) calendar reports that 29 Cheshvan is "Sigd". Curious about this day (on the Jewish calendar; they style secular stuff like Election Day differently) that I'd...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/277297What happened to the end of the Aleph-Beis in Kol Mekadesh?DonielFhttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/530112020-08-16T23:36:47Z2020-09-16T05:17:30Z<p>One of the songs commonly sung on Friday night, which begins <a href="http://www.zemirotdatabase.org/view_song.php?id=83">Kol Mekadesh Shevi'i</a>, follows an alphabetic acrostic. After the intr...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/278033Extra-Tanachic accounts for Nitzavim prophecy?Harel13https://judaism.codidact.com/users/530152020-09-11T10:25:18Z2020-09-11T10:25:18Z<p>In Nitzavim, Devarim 29:23-27 it says:</p>
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<p>"all nations will ask, “Why did the LORD do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?” They will be told, “Because they forso...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/277987Do any scholars identify Tarshish with Tartessos, before the Malbim?DonielFhttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/530112020-09-09T16:10:18Z2020-09-09T18:13:47Z<p>Among the classic Jewish works I've seen, Tarshish is nearly unanimously identified with modern-day Tunisia (<a href="https://www.sefaria.org/Ibn_Ezra_on_Jonah.1.3.1">Ibn Ezra</a>, <a href="http...https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/277640When the Mishnayos were compiled, were they compiled into the perakim we have today, or were they just compiled into masechtos?DonielFhttps://judaism.codidact.com/users/530112018-06-01T19:22:29Z2020-09-03T00:19:31Z<p>Many times throughout Shas, it seems as if the Perakim are sliced in completely arbitrary places. To name a few examples:</p>
<p>In Maseches Shabbos, the halachos of Tzad, trapping, are discusse...