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The count of the soldiers in Numbers 26 of the two and a half tribes were over 100,000. However, Joshua 4:13 shows that the special troops were about 40,000. 12 And the children of Reuben, and the...
וַיִּ֩צֶר֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים מִן־הָֽאֲדָמָ֗ה כָּל־חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְאֵת֙ כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַיָּבֵא֙ אֶל־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם לִרְא֖וֹת מַה־יִּקְרָא־ל֑וֹ וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִקְרָא־ל֧וֹ הָֽאָדָ֛ם נֶ֥פֶ...
Rav Hirsch points out that Yaakov knew that Lavan was a trickster and was going to attempt to avoid paying him anything. He had worked forteen years for his wives and children without getting anyth...
It is not that binary questions were required but that the answers could very easily be misunderstood. For example, the question that Eli asked about Chana (Shmuels mother) is a example. The answer...
Rabbi Yehuda Spitz discusses the matter in the Yated Ne'eman and summarizes the three main approaches. The Shulchan Aruch Oruch Chaim 551:10 states that the person making havdallah should drink the...
Rav Hirsch states that בערתי is used because it must not just be removed but it must be cleared out in the way specified for that type of kodshim. That is it must be eaten or burnt. Rav Hirsch tran...
Hebrew uses the plural form of a word to indicate majesty and high status. For example, when speaking of a slave's owner it uses the term בעלים rather than the singular form בעל. Thus the use of th...
Rav Hirsch says that Lot was with them all along from the time that they left Charan until he split from them after they returned (wealthy) to Canaan. Lech Lacha 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his w...
Basically it would appear that the Druze are an offshoot of Islam. The only reason that someone would accept a Druze as part of a minyan would be if they claimed to be Jewish. It appears from the d...
The locations that Rashi cites are actions by Hashem and not by human beings. Thus, the commentary by Rashi pointing out that Hashem performed the actives in broad daylight to show that he would pr...
While Sefaria.org translates this as But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I swear to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth: Rav Hirsch translates this as And Abram said to the Ki...
Rav Hirsch does tranlate בְּתוֹךְ עֵץ הַגָּן as amongst the trees of the garden because he considers this the appropriate idiom required by the term וַיִּתְחַבֵּא. That is, it is not a matter of di...
Since this is a mashal, then it is not to be taken literally. The mashal of water and the nimshal of Torah is what is important. Just as originally before the Jews received the Torah they lived as ...
Since the Bnei Keturah or the descendants of Yishmael did not accept the Torah at Sinai, they would have to convert completely if they wished to become Jewish. Even if they had had circumcision pre...
