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Who threw the plate in that made the Egel Zahav עֵגֶל זָּהָב come out?
Yehuda haKohen relays:
The Hebrew worldview associates Yosef with cattle. In Moshe’s brakhot
to the different tribes at the end of Sefer D’varim, we see Yosef
likened to a shor – a bull. Our Sages ...
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Midrash Tanchuma. Shoftim 12: Colour, or host? What's the explanation?
דָּבָר אַחֵר, כִּי הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה יוֹרֵשׁ אוֹתָם אֶל מְעֹנֲנִים וְאֶל קֹסְמִים יִשְׁמָעוּ. אָמַר יִרְמְיָה הַנָּבִיא, כִּדְנָה תֵּימְרוּן לְהוֹם וְגוֹ' (ירמיה י, יא). אָמַר רַבִּי ...
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Why did Rachel steal her father's gods? [duplicate]
When the righteous have the opportunity to dispose of gods they do so. For example:
Jacob buried alien gods under the terebinth in Shechem (Gen 35.4).
Moses burned the golden calf, ground up its ...
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Zoroastrianism v.s. Judaism [closed]
Does anybody think Zoroastrianism inflenuced Judaism, cause online people say Zoroastrianism was the first monotheistic religion http://avesta.org, and that Judaism copied it, also that Zoroastrianism ...
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Why did the bull demand Eliyahu hand it over?
In the Yalkut Shim'oni on Ⅰ M'lachim 18 (remez 214), we see a bit more of the story found in that chapter of Navi:
Eliyahu's bull continued following him. But the bull that was designated for Baal — ...
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Issachar's Banner in Halacha
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Bamidbar Rabbah 2:7 describes the symbol on Issachar's banner as the sun and the moon.
I have researched the topic of what it is permitted to draw, and it seems that ...
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