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- <h1>The Mabbul and Mesopotamian Myths</h1> ...is of the many parallels and contrasts between the different accounts, see the commentary of <multilink><a href="CassutoBereshit6-9" data-aht="source">U.18 KB (3,086 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- ...ies and degraded morality.  According to his position, in the future, the prohibition will be renewed.</p> ...nowledge, and it was restored only after his sin was atoned for though the Flood.</p></div>40 KB (6,174 words) - 10:44, 28 January 2023
- ...ies and degraded morality.  According to his position, in the future, the prohibition will be renewed.</p> ...nowledge, and it was restored only after his sin was atoned for though the Flood.</p></div>41 KB (5,941 words) - 10:43, 28 January 2023
- ...ual himself, as the human soul will imbibe the negative characteristics of the animal soul.</p> ...latrous practices. As idolators would consume blood in an effort to divine the future, we are prohibited from doing so.</p></div>51 KB (7,745 words) - 10:24, 28 January 2023
- ...the setting of the story in unique ways, suggesting different readings of the original narrative.</p></div> ...tailed figure wielding a sword. Directly below the tower, on the bottom of the composition, a group of almost identical looking people are aligned in alte16 KB (2,565 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
- <p>Commentators struggle to understand both why Canaan should be cursed for his father's actions and what was so terrible about his deed that it provok ...60; When Noach said "אָרוּר כְּנָעַן", this was short for "אֲבִי כְנָעַן", the epithet of Cham.</p></div>26 KB (3,955 words) - 11:23, 28 January 2023
- <category>Only the Sinners are Punished <p>Hashem only punishes the deserving and does not collectively punish anyone for someone else's crime.</p>29 KB (4,359 words) - 02:54, 17 August 2017
- <p>Commentators struggle to understand both why Canaan should be cursed for his father's actions and what was so terrible about his deed that it provok ...60; When Noach said "אָרוּר כְּנָעַן", this was short for "אֲבִי כְנָעַן", the epithet of Cham.</p></div>27 KB (3,861 words) - 11:28, 28 January 2023
- <h1>Avot and Mitzvot – Was Avraham the First Jew?</h1> ...inances. Others attempt to demonstrate that the Torah is eternal, and that the mitzvot were given already to Adam.</p>37 KB (5,419 words) - 10:32, 28 January 2023
- ...phical information in this section is largely based on the introduction to the Mossad HaRav Kook edition of Sforno's Torah commentary, edited by Z. Gottli <li><b>Name</b> – R. Ovadyah b. R. Yaakov Sforno<fn>The name Sforno seems to refer to a place name in Italy.</fn>34 KB (5,202 words) - 00:45, 6 November 2023
- <h1>Purpose of the Laws of Kashrut</h1> ...n to control his desires.  A final approach suggests that the goal of the laws is to separate Israel from her neighbors. Having a unique diet disting39 KB (5,766 words) - 11:13, 7 April 2024
- ...is filled with repetitions. Sometimes verses repeat almost verbatim within the same chapter or story.  Elsewhere, a later story will recall an earlie ...hich entail repetition and how they might explain apparent redundancies in the Biblical text.</p>89 KB (12,725 words) - 13:40, 17 January 2024
- ...s highlighting the immoral conduct of Amalek (בין אדם לחברו) in preying on the weak and defenseless, while Ibn Ezra and Ramban emphasize Amalek's defiance ...p further in viewing the destruction of Amalek as merely the prototype for the standard fate of all enemies who dare to attack Israel.</p></div>35 KB (5,387 words) - 22:35, 29 October 2020
- <h1>Avraham's Prayer for Sedom</h1> ...e punishment, while his secondary appeal (to God's attribute of mercy) was for collective salvation.  </p>47 KB (7,246 words) - 10:46, 28 January 2023
- <category>Even for Sinners ...quota of righteous was met.  This approach splits, though, regarding for whom Avraham needed to actively pray:</p>46 KB (6,689 words) - 11:14, 28 January 2023
- <h1>Purpose of the Sacrifices</h1> ...sserts that all sacrifices, and not merely sin-offerings, played a role in the atonement process.</p>61 KB (9,056 words) - 12:09, 28 January 2023
- ..., and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;</text> ...l:lang="EN">It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.</text>409 KB (44,375 words) - 12:45, 9 May 2023
- ...life of man. (6) Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.</text> ...ar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Hashem’s. (17) “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout yo337 KB (25,175 words) - 12:03, 28 January 2023
- ...west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Hashem and called on the name of Hashem.</text> ...Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela the same is Zoar.</text>592 KB (64,685 words) - 06:35, 30 May 2022
- ...nings of Scripture and Midrashim, and let them take moral instruction from the mouths of our holy Rabbis: "Into that which is beyond you, do not seek; int ...mortal being is impossible. Therefore, Scripture closed the matter: <i>In the beginning G-d created."</i> Thus is elucidated what we have said on this su990 KB (106,533 words) - 03:55, 18 July 2021