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Why did Yaakov propose his payment scheme? In Vayetze, Genesis 30:25–43, Jacob and Laban come to and execute a strange agreement: > Jacob agrees to tend Laban's sheep under a payment scheme as follows: First (as explained by Rashi to verse 32), Laban separates all the speckled and spotted goats and all the brown sheep, and gives them to hi... (more) |
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Similar to part of this question is [a question I asked a while back on another site](//judaism.stackexchange.com/q/4491). (more) |
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Sounds good to me, @AA . (more) |
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Why the large נ in the thirteen midos? Exodus 34:7 ("נֹצֵר חֶסֶד לָאֲלָפִים נֹשֵׂא עָוֺן וָפֶשַׁע וְחַטָּאָה") is written in Torah scrolls with a large initial letter nun. My kid wants to know why. (I checked several commentaries and found nothing.) (more) |
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I'd want this better defined before I could opine yea or nay. Could you give some examples of things that are "charts and useful links and things like that" and some things that are _not_ "charts and useful links and things like that"? Preferably, include some edge cases, not just the obvious. (more) |
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Not sure. I'm not saying it's a bad or badly worded question. I'm just saying you may not get an answer. (more) |
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It's hard to prove a negative. (more) |
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A: What is the purpose of God asking Adam to name the animals? Haamek Davar (to verses 18–20) explains that the naming itself led to Adam's realization that he was partnerless: > The nature of the human species is not uniform: all the character traits and all the species are included in him. One man's nature may tend one way, and another's the opposite ... (more) |
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@MonicaCellio, this is a _d'var Tora_ I copied from a long time ago, so the research is not fresh in my mind. That said, to address your question about women, I think the general idea by commands that one group has and another does not (whether women, non-_kohanim_, or any other) is that we can learn... (more) |
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Vayera and its haftara: a connection Every haftara, they say, has something to do with the Torah reading it follows. So what does the haftara of parashas Vayera have to do with Vayera? A number of answers are offered, but I'd like to share one based on something I heard from R. Moshe Scheinerman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), circa 1997, in the ... (more) |
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@manassehkatz the idea of it is that it's a timeline, as an aid to study (and summary of) a section of the _Bavli_. Adding prose would defeat the purpose: all the prose is in the _Bavli_ that this is meant to accompany. If you want to argue that it doesn't belong on this site, I can understand that; ... (more) |
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T'filin and the "chozek yad", the "force", used to take us out of Egypt Why are we commanded to wear t'filin? There are, of course, several reasons; one that is written in the Torah itself — in the final verse of parashas "Bo" — is כי בחֹזֶק יד הוציאנו ה׳ ממצרים, to remember that God took us out of Egypt by force. How do t'filin help us remember that? In parashas "B's... (more) |
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a timeline, as an aid to learning Bavli M'gila 17 amud 1, the end of the chapter "M'gila Nikres" the maskana of the g'mara at the end of perek "M'gila Nikres", according to Rashi's p'shat ![When Avraham was 86, Yishmael was born. Fourteen years later, when Avraham was 100, Ever was 291 and Yitzchak was born. Sixty years later, when Ever was 351, Avraham was 160, Yishmael was 74, and Yitzcha... (more) |
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Does "החג" include שמיני עצרת? I commonly see "החג" (or "חג"), literally "the holiday", explained as referring to the holiday of Sukos. I wonder whether it's correct or whether, as I suspect, it refers to the combined celebrations of Sukos and Sh'mini Atzeres. The reasons for that my suspicion are: - that the prayer for rain is... (more) |
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A: Why is the birth of Kayin written strangely? Haamek Davar (to 4:1) answers that the wording by Cain > implies that even without being named, it was obvious that that should be his name… because when a person devotes himself to his subsistence by working the land, naturally his first child will be his helper, like someone he's acquired... (more) |
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"דִבַּרְתִּי צֶדֶק" in Ps. 40:10? For "בִּשַּׂרְתִּי צֶדֶק בְּקָהָל רָב" (Psalms 40:10), a copy I have has instead "דִבַּרְתִּי צֶדֶק בְּקָהָל רָב". I assume this is just a transcription error, but wonder whether perhaps it is, rather, based on some tradition or ancient copy. (more) |
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cross-posted: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/117815 (more) |
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Internet Bavli resource I am hoping (b'li neder) to start, relatively soon, a regular regimen of study of the Talmud Bavli. My goal is to learn large swaths of the g'mara, gaining broad knowledge, but without taking the time to go deeply into it, so I'll probably stick to Rashi as commentator for the most part. Unfortunat... (more) |
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crossposted: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/22235 (more) |
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Does he connect this to our question, or is that your connection? (more) |
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Rereading this now, I'm not sure I agree with "Some people might be interested in republishing pieces that they've read elsewhere, but I see little value in our providing a forum for such republication." in all generality. What about posting a "wow!"-novel thought that I read in a book that almost no... (more) |
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