Harel13‭

A few years ago, one of the rabbis in my yeshiva spoke about this and the explanation he gave was more philosophical than the options you presented. According to him, the statement is more about yo...

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Harel13‭

In his commentary on Beresheet 36:31, Ibn Ezra writes: "ואלה המלכים. יש אומרים כי בדרך נבואה נכתבה זאת הפרשה. ויצחקי אמר בספרו כי בימי יהושפט נכתבה זאת הפרשה. ופי' הדורות כרצונו הכי קרא שמו יצחק כ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by user8078‭

posted 2y ago by Harel13‭

Chizkuni writes: Avraham built an altar;” Yitzchok did not participate in that activity; the reason that he did not do so was not that he would not have been willing to do so, but his father had h...

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Harel13‭

According to the website of the National Library of Israel, indeed there used to be another stanza which appears in Machzor Vitri: קדשם במצותיך יטהרם כעצם השמים לטוהר. רוחך (תנחומו כבבהמה) [תנחמו ...

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ploni‭

Out of interest of helping move Judaism Codidact forward, if I have a question and I see it already has answers in MY, should I still ask it here (bearing in mind that, a. from what I've heard, the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by AA ‭

Kind of a weird question. Does anyone have any idea what happened to the fruit brought by the spies from Israel to the desert? Was it eaten by specific people? Buried? Left behind?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭

How about: Codida'at Combination of Codidact and da'at (knowledge/wisdom/however you want to translate it).

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭

Malbim on Beresheet 6:4 writes: "הנפלים. עתה יפרש מ"ש ויראו בני האלהים את בנות האדם, מי היו בני האלהים, הם אלה שאמרו שהם בני אלהים ונפלו משמים, והגדות כאלה היו בימים האלה וגם אחרי כן. כי נודע שבכל...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭

I was not even aware of this group (and I live in Israel...). Some digging brought the jackpot: The Israeli New Moon Society. Here's what they have to say on the matter: On 7th May 2008 the Sanhed...

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭

I think archaeology should be in scope, but I'm not sure that talking about every monastery that the Crusaders built, for example, is in scope. Similar to what I wrote in Jewish/history, I think th...

posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Harel13‭

How can I move a question from MY to here? Should I just copy all of it here or do the mods (with their techno-magic ;D) do it? And if the latter, how do I request a move?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Rashi alludes to this in Beresheet 13:5: "WHO WENT WITH ABRAM — What brought it about that he possessed all this? The fact that he was accompanying Abram (Genesis Rabbah 41:3; Pesikta Rabbati, שמי...

posted 2y ago by Harel13‭

In 1 Divrei Hayamim 24:4 it says about the dividing of the Mishmarot Kehunah: "The sons of Eleazar turned out to be more numerous by male heads than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided the sons o...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Harel13‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Harel13‭

In Shmuel 1:31:4 it says that Shaul committed suicide rather than be captured alive by the Plishtim. Later, in Shmuel 2:1:2-15 it says that the son of an Amalekite ger who was in the ranks of Shau...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Harel13‭