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Answering Atheist about Torah miracles
How do we explain our belief in the story of Yonah living in a Fish, the Splitting of a sea, and all the other fantastic Miracles described in the Torah to a person who was not brought up religious; ...
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How old was Pharoah when he died?
According to some opinions, Pharoah was the same from when Yosef went to Mitzrayim until Krias Yam Suf, and he was the king in Ninveh when Yonah went to warm them of their immoral behavior (Yalkut ...
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Why does God justify himself to Yona?
In Yona 4:4 why does God need to explain/justify what he did to Yona?
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In what way was Niniveh wicked?
What was so especially "wicked" about Niniveh that Jonah would have to go there?
Were they wicked in that they worshiped different god(s)? This is pretty much what every other country did.
Were they ...
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Why does Ninveh do teshuva so quickly?
In Sefer Yona 3:4 why was it so easy to convince the city of Ninveh to do teshuva (5 words!) if they were so evil?
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Why do we read Yona on Yom Kippur?
Why do we read Yona of all things on Yom Kippur? There are better tales of teshuvah that are more relevant to klall yisroel; why was this sefer, which deals exclusively with non-Jews doing teshuva, ...
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Why did Yonah run away?
If Yonah understood that he was being commanded by God, then how could he have possibly thought that he could run away? Did he believe that God was tied to a particular land, the way pagan gods were ...
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Why does Hashem send Yona to tell non-Jews to do teshuva?
Sefer Yona 1:2 Why does Hashem send Yona to tell non-Jews to do teshuva (repentance)? I don't believe this was ever done before or since.
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Why does Yona get off easy for running away?
Why doesn't God chastise Yona for disobeying him? Perek 3 of Yona picks up as if nothing had happened.
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Why does Yona build a non-kosher succah?
In Yona 4:8 why does Yona build a succa that allows more sun than shade?
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What does God's answer to Yona the prophet (4:11) really mean?
Sefer Yona 4:11 reads:
וַאֲנִי לֹא אָחוּס עַל נִינְוֵה הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה אֲשֶׁר יֶשׁ בָּהּ הַרְבֵּה מִשְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה רִבּוֹ אָדָם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יָדַע בֵּין יְמִינוֹ לִשְׂמֹאלוֹ וּבְהֵמָה רַבָּה
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Why did the animals of Ninveh have to fast and wear sackcloth?
In Yona 3:7-8 we find that the people of Ninveh included the animals in their teshuva process. Why make the animals fast and don sackcloth? How was this part of the teshuva process?
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Why did those on the ship ignore what Yona told them?
If those on the ship asked (Yonah 1:11) and Yonah answered (1:12) as far as how to save them, why did they ignore his suggestion (1:13)?
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Why was there a need for Yona to be saved in a miraculous way?
What's the deal with Yona being swallowed by a fish (2:1)? Couldn't the same thing (i.e. him realizing his mistake) be achieved if he landed on an island?
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Why does Yona flee? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why did Yonah run away?
Sefer Yona 1:3 What is this silly game of running away? Obivously a person who has achieved nevius can't believe fleeing is a real solution. What ...
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What is the lineage of Yona ben Amitai?
The gemarah (Yerushalmi succa 5:1) and midrash (yalkut shimoni Yona, remez 550) indicate that the prophet Yona ben Amitai descended from Zevulun (father) and Asher (mother). However other sources ...
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Was Jonah aware of his miraculous past?
I'm told that some midrashim state that the boy revived by Elijah (I Kings Ch. 17) grew up to be the prophet Jonah.
If so, was Jonah aware of this? It makes for an interesting dimension of his ...
