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What is the source of עתיד בהוראת עבר?
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In the רמב"ם לעם commentary of Yad HaChazaka on the sentence כל התורה כתבה משה רבנו קדם שימות it says that the word ימות is classified as the concept of עתיד בהוראת עבר (A word that is in the ...
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ידיים or ידים which is correct
Seen on a Keli with the spelling ידיים. Thinking it might be Sephardi spelling but checked on sefaria Edut Mizrachi and the word was spelled ידים.
Would like to know if there is a difference between ...
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Explanation of number shifts in the Tanach
In many places in Tanach, the grammatical number (plural or singular) shifts. One famous example has to do with the rocks that Yaakov put under his head. When he woke, the "rock" is referred ...
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Which part of Hebrew or textual grammar tells the reader to add to the verb in question the word "habitually"?
Which part of Hebrew or textual grammar tells the reader to add to the verb in question the word "habitually"?
For example, Exodus 21:36 (Parashat Bo), Chabad translates the verb in question ...
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Where in the Tanakh, on a peshat level, is "Yetzer HaTov" derived?
Where in the Tanakh, on a peshat level, is "Yetzer HaTov" derived?
Rashi seems to derive "Yetzer HaRa" from Genesis 8:21 (because the words "yetzer" and "ra" ...
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Help finding source ונטמתם
There seems to be this teaching (gemarah) in the Talmud (Yoma 39) on Vayikra/Leviticus 11:43 regards the phrase ונטמתם. Because this is written without the expected alef it could be read as v’nitamtem ...
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Koren Siddur on Kal Atzmotai Tomarna
(Note: likely not relevant to those who Daven/read Hebrew with an Ashkenazi pronunciation.)
This Shabbos I was asked to lead Pesukei Dezimrah at a shul I was visiting, and I was given a Koren Siddur ...
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Meaning of ישב אהלים and grammar
We read last Shabbat parshat Toldot in which we find the famous statement in Bereshit 25:27
וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים
The mefarshim deals with the meaning of ישב אהלים, some like ...
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Pray to G-d in feminine (leshon nekeva)
For some reason I remember there were sources strictly prohibiting turning to G-d as a woman. Of cause there are may be prophets metaphores etc. But I think it is at least not encouraged to describe G-...
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Two-letter shorashim and phonetic shorashim?
I have heard many times in the name of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch that every Hebrew shoresh (usually defined with three letters) has a more basic root of two letters. I also heard in his name that ...
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