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Was Achashverosh drunk throughout the Megillah?
Achashverosh has almost no agency in Megillah. He basically walks around signing whatever anyone tells him to sign and making edicts out of anger. Was he totally schnockered from the half year of ...
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Why do children wear crowns on Shavuot?
Here in Israel, the tradition is for young children to wear flower crowns to celebrate Shavuot. (Along with the obligatory white shirts.) See my twins:
Why is this? Is it related to Shabbat 88A ??
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How much of the sefer torah did the king read each day?
According to D'varim 17:18-20, a king was required to write for himself a sefer torah and read from it each day ( וְקָרָא בוֹ כָּל-יְמֵי חַיָּיו). This doesn't say he had to read the whole sefer each ...
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The Torah scrolls written by Jewish kings
The Torah commanded Jewish kings to write their own Torah scroll from a master in the possession of the Levites, and to read it every day of their life so that they should not become haughty and so ...
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Did Hezekiah discovered Torah (or scriptures) Last Copies?
There is a story that Hezekiah discovers scriptures. What scriptures did Hezekiah discover?
Is it Torah?
Is it the last copy?
The reason #2 is important is if it's the last copy, then our whole ...
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Writing Sefer Torah for Melech (King)
It says in the Mishnah (Sanhedrin Daf 21b):
וכותב לו ס"ת לשמו
— that a Sefer Torah should be written for the King "l'shmo". What does l'shmo in this case mean: for the "sake of the King"? ...
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Why do the middat hayom start with chessed and progress to malchut?
Included in my siddur as part of the sefirat haomer are the corresponding middat hayom for each day/week. They begin with chessed sh'b'chessed and progress through a series of middot - gevurah, ...
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What was so good about Naamah the Ammonite?
In Bava Kamma 38b we are told that one reason God spared Lot was because of the two good birds who would issue from his daughters. Rus from Moav and Naamah from Ammon. Rus is well known, the only ...
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Why didn't King Chizkiyahu sing?
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 94a states:
The Holy One, blessed be He, wished to appoint Chizkiyahu as the
Messiah, and Sancheriv as Gog and Magog; whereupon the Attribute of
Justice said before the ...
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Why was Esther afraid to go to the King the second time, but not the first time?
When Mordechai told Esther that two of the King's guards were plotting to kill him, she went right away to tell the king directly.
Yet when Mordechai later asked her to approach the king to save all ...
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Why doesn't Ahab have the right to just seize land as he see fits?
Ahab wanted a land from Nabot. Nabot doesn't want to sell. Well, Ahab is a king.
So Ahab frames Nabot for treason, kills him, and takes his land. G-d gets upset and curses Ahab and his descendants.
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Which kings stay in bed to the third hour of the day?
It says in the Gemara that we can say Shma until the third hour since that's when kings get up.
What kings are we talking about? Jewish kings weren't around until much later, so Sof Zman Krias Shema ...
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What does Dovid Melech Yisrael Chai Vkayam mean?
I'm pretty sure Dovid, the king of Israel is dead and buried. If so, what does this song really mean and why do we sing it? Why do we pick Dovid specifically and not some other tzadik, like Moshe?
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Why are Psalms 136 verses 17 & 18 apparently out of historical order?
In Psalms 136, verses 17 and 18 refer to kings smitten or slain after Sihon and Og mentioned in verses 19 and 20. Why are the verses apparently out of historical order?
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Position of Reish Galusa
Does anyone know why the position of Reish Galusa no longer exists and when it was discontinued?
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King Yoash murdered - Who's responsible?
II Melechim 12:21 and II Divri HaYamim 24:25 both indicate that servants conspired and killed King Joash. There seems to be a little bit of confusion on the murderers' names---Yozacar vs Zabad ben ...
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what is the source for “Ein Melech B'Lo Am”?
There is a seemingly well known chazal "Ein Melech B'Lo Am" there is no king without a people. Which is supposed to indicate that God cannot truly be king without subjects. Where is this chazal found ...
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How were judges appointed in the times of the Bais Hamikdash?
In the times of the Bais Hamikdash, were judges appointed by the king, or were they elected by the people? And was the system different based on which size court (i.e., courts comprised of 3, 23, or ...
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Who is the Nasi in Ezekiel?
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I was rereading Yehhezqei'l and was curious about the context of something towards the end.
In pereq 46 from 1-18 it talks about a Nasi (prince), for example :
"And the prince, when they go ...
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Is a Jew allowed to be knighted? Problem with kneeling?
Is there any halachik problem with going through the knighting (or Damehood for women) process of kneeling etc?
The current ceremony does not contain many of the Christian or pagan overtones of the ...
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When did Achashverosh stop rounding up fair maidens?
So first Achashverosh was married to Vashti. Then no more Vashti. Then he's rounding up all the fair maidens in the land to um, "meet" them, one per night, but they're still stuck in one of his royal ...
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Is IshBoshet, Saul's son, his real original name?
Boshet means shameful or abomination.
Did his parents name him that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ish-bosheth
In short, the question is whether that's his original name.
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Isolationism vs. Interventionism
Taking as vague definitions:
isolationism: the principle that states should mind their own affairs
interventionism: the principle that the state has a moral responsibility to intervene in the ...
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Why are none of the Pharaohs in the Torah identified by name?
Throughout the Torah, the various Egyptian Pharaohs are always referred to as simply "Pharaoh" or "the king of Egypt" (or both), but never with any other parts of their official titulary.
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Did anointed kings of Israel have contact with their parents?
This answer to another question makes me wonder: Did anointed kings of Israel have any contact with their parents? David was dead when Shlomo succeeded him, and Shlomo ruled until his own death. But ...
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What defines a “Jewish State” according to Rav Kook?
This question is only According to the opinion of R' Kook, who says that modern day Israel "would be considered the
quasi-Kingdom of Israel".
What component of the modern-day state would give it ...
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King cant Forgive how did they ask Yosef King of Egypt for forgiveness
The Posuk says (בראשית פרק נ' י''ז):
כֹּה תֹאמְרוּ לְיוֹסֵף אָנָּא שָׂא נָא פֶּשַׁע אַחֶיךָ וְחַטָּאתָם
Translated as:
"Please, forgive now your brothers' transgression and their sin"
The ...
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If kings were supposed to be from Shevet Yehuda, why was Shaul from Binyamin anointed?
If kings were supposed to be from Shevet Yehuda, why was Shaul from Binyamin anointed?
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Balak The King Since when?
In the First Posuk it says:
וירא בלק בן ציפור (And Balak the son of Tzippor Saw)
no mention of his ...
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Dovid haMelech and Amalek
In Shmuel Alef chapter 15 Shaul HaMelech (King Saul) loses his kingship because in his battle against Amalek he failed to kill King Agag and saved livestock to offer as sacrifices.
Later we find ...
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