Timeline for Why Eleven and Twelve in "Echad Mi Yodea" refer to the same thing?
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:39 | comment | added | Al Berko | @Loani There are always 12 tribes, if Levi's not counted Yossef is counted twice - Efraim and Menashe. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | Lo ani | Or even the other way around: 11 refers to the sh’vatim minus shevet leivi, who is often excluded, and 12 refers to the 12 sons of ya’acov | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | Lo ani | Just a thought, 11 may refer to the actual people (minus Yosef who was in mitzrayim) while 12 refers to the sh’vatim that came from them (the ones known nowadays as shevet Yehuda, for example) | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 21:14 | answer | added | Avery | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | DonielF | I’d think that answer does this justice. According to Rav Pinkus, eleven represents Sitra Achra, epitomized in the brothers’ attempt to destroy Yosef after his dreams; this is distinct from twelve, which is the brothers themselves (and whatever that epitomizes according to Rav Pinkus; he seems to have a different philosophy behind many of the numbers than the Maharal, so I’m not sure that he agrees that twelve represents Hashem’s presence in the natural order). | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 11:47 | answer | added | DonielF | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 1:51 | answer | added | sabbahillel | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 27, 2019 at 17:58 | history | asked | Al Berko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |