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Three Questions below: Please let me know when the answer is available.

  1. Exo. 19:1: "On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt — on that very day — they came to the Desert of Sinai." Initially, wasn't it only supposed to take the Israelites just 2-3 weeks to arrive in Canaan (Promised Land) (I was thrown for a loop when the scriptures said “third month after. . ”) but due to their sins it took them 40 years?

  2. Gen. 41:51-52" "Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, 'It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household. '" Looking at this statement from a midrash point-of-view, all that Joseph experienced had to cause emotional and psychological trauma — just as it would to Absalom's sister, Tamar; even Isaac, when Abraham raised up that knife; Not to forget, Jephthah's daughter who was sacrificed to a life of (a nun, so-to-speak); Dinah, especially since her father didn't stand up to Shechum's father and tell him that his son could NOT marry her (although he raped her); David's wife, Michal, and what must have seem like (hell) that she went through. All of these individuals were "victims. " What remedy would heal them from re-occuring nightmares, the re-living of those incidents, post-traumatic stress initiated by the perpetrator / offenders and … the unwise?

  3. Do any of the branches of Judaism believe

    • there will be an end-time apocalypse or eschatology

    • in the Millenium, a new heaven and earth, the end-of-the-world and last judgment?

Shalom!

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Hello VMM, and welcome to Mi Yodeya! I suggest you split these into three separate questions, as in its current form this question is not a good fit for the our site, and will be closed as Non-Constructive. – HodofHod Aug 21 '12 at 23:47
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VMM I'd like to second Hod's welcome! He is right though that, as you say, these are three separate questions and should be asked seperately. Please edit out two of them, and feel free to ask them as new posts. When you have done so, please ping me @DoubleAA to reopen this. – Double AA♦ Aug 21 '12 at 23:56

closed as not a real question by HodofHod, Double AA♦ Aug 21 '12 at 23:55

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  1. Yes, it did take them almost 40 years longer to get there than they were supposed to be — it was, in fact, only a journey of three days — but they messed up with the spies, which caused them to take 40 years (Rashi, Devarim 1:2).

  2. I guess you could say that they were all victims. As far as I know, the verses don't tell us what "coping mechanism" they used. By Joseph, it specifically says "Because G-d caused to to forget my distress," which implies that without G-d, he wouldn't have forgotten it.

  3. Yes — all branches of Judaism believe in an apocalypse, as described here. It is described in detail in Rabbi Schwab's book Beis HaShoevah. We also believe in final judgment (#11 in the "Ani Maamin," translated here.

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(Just a heads up that the question content may be changing soon.) – Double AA♦ Aug 21 '12 at 23:58
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to elaborate on point one: before the 3 day journey the Jews spent (and always intended to spend) almost a complete year in the Sinai Desert. – Menachem Aug 22 '12 at 1:47

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