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He should be identified as Yitschak Hayyisraeli, an early Jewish-Arabic philosopher and commentator. The Ibn Ezra actually quotes him again in the very next verse as יצחק המהביל. Apart from here (I...

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Rabbi Feinstein's responsum forbids any Christian music of a religious character, even if it's not part of liturgy. Handel's Messiah is obviously included (the comment is wrong on this; he explicit...

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The haftara is recited only from the Prophets (Nevi'im), not even from the Writings (Ketuvim). This is the case as far back as the Mishna (Megilla 4:1-5). It wouldn't make sense to say the blessing...

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Rosh Hashanah 16a.15 provides an example where חג can only mean the first seven days, since the pouring of water didn't take place on the eighth day (Sukkah 4:1). Since it's also interpreting Rosh ...

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The rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash didn't use the Septuagint. The Septuagint is mentioned in Megilla 9a, which lists the changes made in the translation. The story only deals with the translation...

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For what it's worth, Frank Zimmerman ("The Perpetuation of Variants in the Masoretic Text," p. 468) cites this as an instance of two textual variants being preserved in the text. Version 1: וְש...

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I think that questions about Hebrew and Jewish languages should be allowed. Knowledge of Hebrew/JL is useful for studying Torah and Jewish texts, even though requiring questions about it to be aske...

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