Questions tagged [melchizedek]
Biblical King of Shalem, and Priest of God.
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What made Malkitzedek a Cohen more than Abraham?
IIRC, before Mt. Sinai, priestly rights were given to the firstborns.
For those who say, Malkitzedek was Shem Ben Noah, he wasn't Noah's firstborn.
I don't know if Abraham was a firstborn, but, unlike ...
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What's the deal with Melchizedek
After the narrative of the battle of Siddim (between a coalition of four kings and a coalition of five kings). It's stated that the king of Sodom went out to meet Avram (see Bereshit 14:17) - followed ...
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What is Known Regarding the Ancestry of Melchizedek?
Melchizedek, as far as I know, is referred to only twice in the Bible: Gen. 14:18-20 and Psalm 110, v. 4.
QUESTION: What, if anything, is known with a reasonable degree of certainty regarding the ...
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Is R. Yehoshua ben Levi ever identified with a particular angel?
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Did Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi learn the Angel of Death's personal name?
We learn that Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi entered the Garden of Eden alive without dying.
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How are we to understand Malchi-Tzedek, non-Jewish priest of God?
Malchi-Tzedek is a gentile priest who worships God. I initially read this as just saying God is not exclusive (it says somewhere in Nevi'im that God also has covenants with other peoples), but today ...
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"Priests" prior to Aaron
We know there were gentile priests prior to the establishment of the Kohens. Melchizedek is an example.
In Shemot 19, there are two verses that refer to "priests" prior to the giving of the Torah.
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Do modern Jews believe in a priesthood after the order of Melchisedec?
Do modern Jews believe in a priesthood after the order of Melchisedec? Is there anything taught about it? From the Christian book of Hebrews 7:11:
...what further need was there that another priest ...
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Malkizedek, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
וּמַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק מֶלֶךְ שָׁלֵם הוֹצִיא לֶחֶם וָיָיִן וְהוּא כֹהֵן לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן׃
And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High. (Ber 14, 18)
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Why is the information that Malchi-Tzedek was a priest not written earlier in the posuk?
In parshas Lech Lecha, after Avraham had successfully conquered the four kings and rescued his nephew Lot, it says (Bereishis 14,18):
וּמַלְכִּי-צֶדֶק מֶלֶךְ שָׁלֵם, הוֹצִיא לֶחֶם וָיָיִן; וְהוּא ...
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Did Melchizedek create a yeshiva?
Did Melchizedek have a yeshiva which he used to teach Torah to people, including Avraham?
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