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Activity for Harel13
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Sources for the meaning of David's name I have often wondered about the meaning of David's name. I believe Da'at Mikra write that it may be a short form of Dodvahu (דודוהו), which also appears somewhere in Tanach and means Dod (friend) of God. I was wondering whether there were sources that state other views to the meaning of David's name?... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA that doesn't sound like much of a legal ramification for the act. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA it seems so, Thanks! I didn't quite understand, though: What is the נפק"מ for that the child goes after the pagum - is the child, in our case, also a first-gen Egyptian convert? And if so, and if theoretically all of Yarcha's descendants married Jewish women, does this mean that all of his descen... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA as I understand the situation, Yarcha himself was not allowed to marry a Jew, only a potential grandson. Yet he, Yarcha, did. What does that say about his descendants? Does it delegitimize them somehow? Or maybe it says nothing, but I'd like to know why. I don't know how else to explain it. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA exactly, yet Yarcha, a first generation Egyptian, married the daughter of Sheshan, of the tribe of Yehudah. I understand this should have been a no-no. Attai is the result of this marriage. Though only his own son would have been able to enter, things didn't exactly go that way because Yarcha wen... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277523 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Status of the descendants of Yarcha In Ki Tetzeh it says (Devarim 23:8-9): >"You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land. Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of the LORD in the third generation." In Hilchot Issurei Biah 13:11-12 it says: >"Just as we circumcise and immerse converts;... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277351 |
@DonielF thanks, I edited my question. Personally, I think that can be understood from pshat, too. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277351 |
Post edited: Clarified |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276949 |
It seems R' Ahron Marcus in Barzilai believes that Nun was originally a Hebrew word. He also says that Nun per the Egyptian meaning came from one of the Babylonian-Hebraic dialects. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277351 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Ancestry of the Mishmarot Kehunah 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 of Eleazar into sixteen chiefs of clans and the sons of Ithamar into eight clans." And then it lists... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277297 |
@AA yes, true. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277343 |
Shual isn't a fox? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277342 |
I believe the fox is supposed to be that trickster sort of creature, much like the man who gets someone to build his home and then doesn't pay up. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277307 |
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| Edit | Post #277307 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What happened to the end of the Aleph-Beis in Kol Mekadesh? 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 כבהמה] תרד בבקעה מן ההר: שבתיהם תשכנם בנחלת הסהר. כנחלים נטיו. וכגנות עלי נהר: אחרת:‏ It is uncl... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277289 |
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| Edit | Post #277289 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Question on Ekev: in what way are good things hard? My dad suggested that I had misunderstood the way the verses are supposed to be read. He said that Moshe says that Hashem brought upon the various hardships of traveling through the desert and in order to alleviate somewhat those hardships, Hashem sent the following miracles: manna, clothes that didn... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277117 |
Giving English translations would be useful. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277081 |
For a practically math-know-nothing, could you explain how the points system works in more detail? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
I would to import https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111420/was-there-a-soreg-in-bayit-rishon,
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111133/is-there-a-list-of-the-different-types-of-deaths,
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111052/nowadays-whom-is-birkat-haminim-directed-at... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277078 |
Thank you! 15 ch (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
@AA I won't. That's why I posted this question. I want to know how best to go about it. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
@MonicaCellio in this case, one that I asked, but I'm asking here in general because it's unclear to me how this is actually done. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277068 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Moving questions from MY to here 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? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@Alaychem agreed. Did you not look at my link? I wrote possibly because I have yet to really go through the book (or what's available on google...), but from what I saw, yes, it seems drakons and serpents were worshiped in certain places. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@Alaychem [possibly](https://books.google.co.il/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA417&lpg=PA417&dq=%22drakon%22+roman+worship&source=bl&ots=JzOAF_NlWB&sig=ACfU3U10LKeiVJE39lClxgr0cqSLaE0a0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLxrbTi4HrAhVxTRUIHduUD-w4ChDoATAIegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=cult&f=false) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@DonielF but isn't סנפיר a fin and not a scale? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277047 | Post edited | — | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
As a leave-open reason, I think that questions such as this are helpful in getting to know one another and building an online community. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277038 |
@DonielF are you asking who was the first person to translate it as such? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
As cool as it would be to see a connection between the two, it's more likely that it is based on the Greek and Roman myths of the drakons/dragons. For example, [this mosaic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_in_Greek_mythology#/media/File:Reggio_calabria_museo_nazionale_mosaico_da_kaulon.jpg) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
Fascinating observation! (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277047 |
Suggested edit: Capitalized Did and changed at to in. (more) |
helpful | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277037 |
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| Edit | Post #277038 |
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| Edit | Post #277038 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Why is "chinam" translated as "baseless"? This is based on a class given by one of the rabbis at my yeshiva: Consider the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, often brought as an example of Sinat Chinam. Arguably, the hatred there wasn't without benefit: The rich man didn't want to be associated with lowly riff-raff such as Bar Kamtza. Associa... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277037 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What's your favorite weekly Torah section, and why? I don't have a particularly favorite parsha, but there are a few sections I like especially: """World-building""" (for lack of a better term at the moment, hence the triple quotation marks...) sections - sections such as the genealogies in Beresheet and the mifkadim in Bamidbar. I find that sectio... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277035 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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What happened to the fruit brought by the spies? 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? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277027 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Question on Ekev: in what way are good things hard? In the beginning of Ekev, Moshe says that Hashem tested Bnei Yisrael in the desert to see if they would remain faithful - "Remember the long way that the LORD your God has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, that He might test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: w... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276958 |
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| Comment | Post #276949 |
@DonielF I guess that's true. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a Hebrew meaning for Nun (other than the letter...). Any suggestions would be welcomed. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |