In the spirit of Talmud Bavli Chullin 139b.
The Talmud assumes that great future events are hinted to in the Torah. Well in that case... Mi Yodeya min HaTorah minayin (where is Mi Yodeya hinted at in the Torah)?
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In the spirit of Talmud Bavli Chullin 139b. The Talmud assumes that great future events are hinted to in the Torah. Well in that case... Mi Yodeya min HaTorah minayin (where is Mi Yodeya hinted at in the Torah)? This question is Purim Torah and is not intended to be taken completely seriously. See the Purim Torah policy. |
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The continuation of that gemara (Chullin 139c) notes that the hint to Mi Yodeya is in Devarim 21:1 which states:
because Mi Yodeya is characterized by the ability to hit people without being known. |
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God had Moshe gather an assembly of elders to receive spill-over prophecy and become adjuct prophets. Two men who weren't amongst the assembly received the prophecy where they were. When Moshe's assistant, Yehoshua heard about this, he suggested that his master incarcerate these two for their disrespect.
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Mi Yodeya is hinted to in Sh'mos 10:8: "מי ומי ההלכים". The Ramban (ad loc.) writes that Pharaoh used this phrase as a reference to only the elite few "leaders, sages, and officers - men who were mentioned by name." In a similar vein, the Ba'al HaTurim notes that the gematria of "מי ומי ההלכים" equals that of "כלב ובן נון", the great sages who knew how to respond to the rest of the spies, and who therefore survived the journey to the Land of Canaan (ad loc.; cf. B'midbar 14:30):
The gemara (T'murah 16a) asks: Kaleiv, in fact, was the son of Chetzron, so why was he called כלב בן יפונה? One talmudic manuscript (MS Sambatyon Or. 140) answers that the gematria of the root .י.פ.נ equals the gematria of מי יודע - Kaleiv was one of the elite few who knew the answers to the questions people sought (cf. Rashbam, B'midbar 13:30 "'And Kaleiv silenced the people': With his wisdom"). On a daily basis, contributors to Mi Yodeya astound and amaze with their wisdom. |
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If Mosheh was there, why were they asking each other? At that point, Mosheh was still judging everyone by himself (18:15-16). Why were they asking each other? It must be a reference to a good website for asking questions about Jewish life and learning and getting crowd-sourced answers. |
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