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| location | Haifa, Israel | |
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Feb 22 |
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Was Joseph's bad report on his brothers evidence or simply damaging? Doesn't he have to [intentionally] lie( rather than innocently give an incorrect testimony) for it to be Motzi Shem Ra? ( See Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot De'ot 7:2.) |
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Feb 22 |
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Why is Shimshon buried “in the grave of his father” and not father and mother? (1) Where is one's mother ever mentioned in relation to the burial place of a man in the Tanakh? (2) More interesting to me is, why is he said to be buried "in the burying-place of Manoah his father"( as if only his father was buried there, but not others of his ancestors or of the "house of his father")? |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Feb 21 |
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Why isn't Peru URvu one of the 7 Noahide Laws? @SethJ See the source given, in Sanhedrin 59a: "ליכא מידעם דלישראל שרי ולעובד כוכבים אסור".( You could have asked Yishai the same question 6 months ago.) |
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Feb 19 |
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Was Joseph's bad report on his brothers evidence or simply damaging? If Yosef was "mistaking them for real people and animals", does that mean he was "simply giving a factual report to his father, the Judge, about something gone bad"? |
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Feb 19 |
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Was Joseph's bad report on his brothers evidence or simply damaging? What about Yosef's accusation "that they demeaned the sons of the handmaids by calling them slaves"( Rashi on Bereshit 37:2, s.v. "Et Dibatam Ra'ah")? |
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Feb 18 |
answered | Can one join an army? |
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Feb 16 |
answered | Mezuzah on rental property |
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Feb 12 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Feb 12 |
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Giving a slave multiple wives A more direct link. |
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Feb 12 |
suggested | suggested edit on Giving a slave multiple wives |
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Feb 3 |
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Why does Onkelos translate “לֹֽא יוּכַל” as “לָא יִכּוֹל” rather than “לֵית לֵיהּ רְשׁוּ” @ba (1) Where does Rashi say that "they can physically ascend"? (2) If Rashi says that the prohibition against them ascending is the cause of their being "Lo Yukhlu", then it cannot be the meaning of it.( The cause, in "cause and effect", is not the meaning of the effect.) Therefore, it makes no sense, according to Rashi, to say "Lo Yukhal" means "doesn't have permission". |
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Feb 2 |
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Why does Onkelos translate “לֹֽא יוּכַל” as “לָא יִכּוֹל” rather than “לֵית לֵיהּ רְשׁוּ” (1) I think you're misunderstanding Rashi on Shemot 19:23: he is not saying that "Lo Yukhal" "means they're not allowed", but rather that they can't( "Lo Yuchlu") because they're not allowed( "ולא יוכלו לעלות שאין להם רשות"). So, "Lo Yukhal"/"Lo Yuchlu" still means "[they] can't". (2) Where's the Rashi you mention for Devarim 16:5? ( I could fin any Rashi on Devarim 16:5) |
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Jan 27 |
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Rashi: Caleb married Miriam You beat me to it, although I would have linked to Chabad's Tanakh with Rashi, which has English translations, as well( and gives the source as Sotah 11b, where the Ma'amar referred to begins). |
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Jan 24 |
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How was Saul a Tzadik if he wiped out Nov? @pzkd ... Thirdly, if the answer would have been posted as a comment to the original question, I would have understood that you had what seems like the basis for a proper answer, but were unsure about the details, and how they related to the subject of the question, and I might have just asked for you to clarify what you meant, nothing more. |
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Jan 24 |
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How was Saul a Tzadik if he wiped out Nov? @pzkd Considering that the discussion here seems to have focused on the lack of source(s) as reason for down-voting, I'd like to clarify: I didn't down-vote merely for the lack of a source for your answer, but rather for the combination of that and the ambiguity of the answer itself. If your answer was more assertive and clear, but without a source, I would have only voted for Monica Cellio's request for a source( which I did anyhow). If the answer was sourced( even if only with the link you later brought), even as it was, I might have commented on it, without voting ... |
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Jan 24 |
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Can a convert be a prophet? @SethJ Even so, one could still argue that they qualified for receiving certain lower levels of prophecy, but not for higher levels, or becoming prophets. Also, conversion is not the issue, being a Jew is, and Benei Yisra'el before Matan Torah were no less Jews than their descendants towards the end of time of the First Temple were. In any case, Judaism( in the form of the Torah) for them to convert into, was only given after they received prophecy( so they were gentiles rather than converts?). |
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Jan 24 |
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Why did Avraham prefer the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre over Eliezer's daughter? The second Da'at Zeqenim Ba'alei ha-Tosafot gives the same answer as the Siftei Chakhamim( a couple of pages later) I mentioned in comment to the original question. |
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Jan 24 |
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Can a convert be a prophet? @SethJ Does receiving prophecy make one a prophet? ( I would think that a prophet is one who passes the prophecy on to others). More generally, I think you're touching on a more basic question: How do we define prophecy and prophets? Is any communication from God really prophecy? Is anyone God speaks to a prophet? |
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Jan 24 |
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Can a convert be a prophet? @SethJ I didn't say that Billaam's gift of prophecy was, in itself, limited, nor that non-Jews couldn't be prophets, nor that only one gentile was ever made a prophet( I wasn't even voicing my own opinion in the matter). I was saying that, according to the Rashi I cited, the bar for gentiles, especially Billaam, becoming prophets was lowered( to deny gentiles an excuse for not repenting), and one could not learn from them to Gerim who, like native born Jews, don't enjoy the same leniency( and have to be better qualified for prophecy). |
