Questions tagged [tanach]
An acronym of "Torah" (Five Books of Moses), "Neviim" (Prophets), and "Kesuvim" (Writings). The three books together form the "Written Torah".
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List of people who lose a child in תנ"ך
Any other cases of people who lose a child in תנ"ך apart from Adam, Yehuda, Aharon, David, Eli, Iyov?
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Tools to validate Torah codes
Torah codes are "a purported set of secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah" (Wikipedia).
For instance, a well known code suggests that counting 3 intervals of 12111 letters from ...
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Why is God called יָהּ in Shemot 15:2 in Shir Ha-Yam but in the next verse it says His name is יְהוָה?
Shemot 15:2 and 3 say:
ב עָזִּי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ, וַיְהִי-לִי {ר} לִישׁוּעָה; {ס} זֶה אֵלִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ, {ס} אֱלֹהֵי {ר} אָבִי וַאֲרֹמְמֶנְהוּ. {ס}
ג יְהוָה, אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; יְהוָה, {ר}...
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Does Satan have 12 wings?
Someone told me that according to Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, Satan has 12 wings.
Is it true?
The tanakh doesn't say anything about Satan's look then where does it come from?
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What is the greatest age difference between a married couple in Tanach?
In many instances, we know the ages of personalities in Tanach and when they got married. In some cases, we aren't given enough information within the text and in some of those instances, the ...
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Personal Attributes, Influence and Importance of Japhet Among Noah's Sons [closed]
Would you be so kind and provide brief, yet details information about personal attributes, influence and importance of Japhet, commonly agreed among Jews and also Hebrews, perhaps if possible by ...
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Why is the colour כחול ('blue') not mentioned in Tanach?
The colour כחול is not mentioned in Tanach. Given it's wide usage in later hebrew texts, why does it never feature in Tanach? Do any sources pick up on this?
(There is a different debate about what ...
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How many Parshios are in each Sefer of Tanach?
How many words are there in Tanach? already asks about several statistics about Sifrei Tanach, but there's one that was left out:
How many Parshios are in each Sefer of Tanach?
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Chapters of Tanach present in Talmud Yerushalmi
Chapters of Tanach present in Talmud Bavli asks:
I heard there is a style of Talmud study somewhere, where as a verse presents itself in the Talmud, the student would learn the entire chapter from ...
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Mikraos Gedolos set of the entire Tanakh?
I will start by saying that I know nothing and must admit I was raised Christian. I had some curiosity as to why Christians are Christian when our guy that we are supposed to imitate and be like told ...
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Are there any recordings of the Tanakh read or chanted according to reconstructed Ancient Hebrew pronunciation?
I'm looking for audio recordings of the Tanakh, but without modern or Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciations - rather an attempt to recreate what Ancient (and Archaic) Hebrew actually sounded like.
I'm also ...
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Strange letters according to Sefer haTaggin
My chevrusoh mentioned last week that there is a sefer entitled Sefer haTaggin which discusses all of the strange letters found in Tana"ch.
Is there a collection of these letters and their forms (...
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Common language and the language of the Scripture used in 1st century BCE?
I read from the internet where most articles say:
A. The common language used by the Jews around 1st century BCE to (at least) the beginning of 1st century CE was Greek and the Scripture they use is ...
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Would a printed copy of Meguillat Esther require genizah?
Meguillat Esther is, famously, the one Tanakh text in which the name of G-d is never mentioned. Suppose you had a worn-out printed copy. Could you dispose of it as you would any old book, given the ...
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Multiple characters with the same name in the bible
In the Bible most of the names are unique, especially for the main characters.
As far as I know there is only one Abraham and only one Moses etc.
There are some names that appear more than once like ...
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Why does ויאמר almost never use לאמר, and why does וידבר almost always use לאמר?
It seems that whenever Tanach says ויאמר, "and he said," it almost never uses the word לאמר, "saying."1
Conversely, whenever Tanach says וידבר, "and he spoke," it almost always uses the word לאמר, "...
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Torah Genealogy not mentioning Childless people
In Shmuel 1, 17:12, the sons of Yishai are listed. There is a discrepancy between this count (of 7) and the textual statements that Yishai had 8 sons. Some meforshim explain this as because the 8th, ...
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Why does the Tetragrammaton sometimes include the cholam vowel?
Why does the Tetragrammaton sometimes include the cholam vowel ?
The question isn't a duplicate of What are the reasons or rules for the different variations in vowels on the Tetragrammaton?
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Sheimos-free versions of Tanach Online
There are many websites that provide the user with the text of Tanach (as well as various other Jewish sources). When printing sources, I like to avoid printing "Shemot", or actual names of Hashem, ...
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Jewish wisdom on how to remain calm under stressful situations
What do the scriptures say on how to calm oneself down when one is faced with exiting his comfort zone? As long as I can remember, I've always became quite nervous with uncomfortable feelings ...
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How many messianic prophecies in the Tanach?
Xtians make the bold claim that their j-sus fulfilled over 300 prophecies from the Hebrew Scriptures. Most of them are either verses taken out of context, mistranslations of Hebrew, some remote ...
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Is King Saul positively regarded in Judaism?
King David is well-known to be positively regarded in Judaism, not only for his great accomplishments and devotion (psalms, if not authored by him, became prominent because of him), but also as the ...
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Did King Solomon create the first train?
I once heard from a Rabbi in a Nach lesson that King Solomon made the first train, however, the Rabbi cannot remember where the exact source.
Can anyone help?
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A verse similar to this
Is there a verse in the Tanakh that is similar to or contains some phrase similar to this phrase :
"(G-d said) : This is our gift, so grant or withhold (restrict) without account (as you wish/like)"...
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Why does Rabba bar Mari in the Talmud quote Ben Sira as a part of “the Writings” when it is not in the Ketuvim section of the Tanakh?
As revealed in the answer here, in Bava Kama 92b, Rava asks Rabba bar Mari for the source of a popular saying, and Rabba bar Mari answers with five different sources for it. The third verse, which is ...
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Does anything in the Tanakh resemble the quote “Each shall seek his own kind”?
I just watched "Fiddler on the Roof" and noticed Tevye said the following:
Who says he isn't? It's just that he's a different kind of man. As the Good Book says, "Each shall seek his own kind." In ...
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How do we attain salvation?
At school we are taught that people who are good will go to Heaven and people who are bad will go to Hell. So if this is true, doing good deeds such as charity, fasting and worship of God should be ...
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Why are several prophetic books collected into 'Trei Asar'?
One of the books of Tanach is Trei Asar, which is actually a collection of 12 prophetic books. I would like to understand why these books were aggregated into one instead of each book being treated ...
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What happened to Leviim as teachers?
In the Torah it seems pretty clear that the Kohanim/Leviim were supposed to be the teachers and moral guides of Bnei Yisrael (e.g., Devarim 33:10):
יוֹרוּ מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ לְיַעֲקֹב וְתוֹרָתְךָ ...
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Does the Dagesh forte really replace a double letter?
I have read about the Dagesh Forte and how it doubles a letter in Tanach.
For example, הָלֵּלוּ has a dagesh forte in the לֵּ.
If this dagesh was not there would there really be two ל instead?
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Is the king of Israel called 'God' at Psalm 45:7a (so the Septuagint, Aquila)?
Psalm 45 is a wedding song for the marriage of a king of Israel. At verse 7a the lyric says:
כִּסְאֲךָ אֱלֹהִים, עוֹלָם וָעֶד
The Jewish Greek translation which came to be called the Septuagint ...
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Sources for receiving blessing through Mitzvot
I am searching for sources for the concept that a Jew keeping the Mitzvot will ultimately bring blessing to / not keeping the Mitzvot will bring destruction to:
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What is the shortest pasuk
What is the shortest verse?
Someone asked me and i did not have an answer
In the tenach?
In the chumash?
How about second to shortest.
How did you find it?
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Why aren't there any Gay people in the Bible?
Our scriptures (the Bible and later) are full of people who sinned.
Every kind of sin, including murder and sexual sins.
The sinners are both from our people as well as non-Jews.
Some of the sinners ...
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Tribal affiliation through the father
Which Tanakh verses support the halacha that tribal affiliation is transmitted through the paternal side?
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What verses of Tanach have penultimate stress on every word?
Saying kaparos this year, I noticed that Iyov 33:24, which is included in the rite, has all its words mil'el, i.e. with the penultimate rather than the ultimate syllable stressed. (Most words in ...
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Animals with short lifespans on noah's ark
How did the animals that have short natural lifespans (less than a year) - and given that they were prohibited from reproduction
see Rashi here - survive in the ark?
These are mainly insects such as ...
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Where can I find a transliterated; translated Tanakh?
I'm looking for a Tanakh that has the following specifications:
The original Hebrew text
Transliteration of that text into the Latin alphabet
English translation
Does anyone know where I could find ...
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Travel Nach set with Targum?
I came upon a travel נ״ך set recently. It had some basic commentaries such as רש״י and מצודת דוד, however there was no Targum.
Are there any travel sets which have Targum as well?
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Children of the Exodus (families, names, ages)
I hope my question will not be considered too broad. I am writing young adult fiction taking place during the Exodus (from just before the 10th plague until just after the giving of the second set of ...
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Pronunciation of בשגם - Patach or Kamatz?
This past Shabbos in shul, I saw a paper about the pronunciation of the word בשגם (Bereishis 6 3).
"וַיֹּאמֶר ה' לֹא־יָדוֹן רוּחִי בָאָדָם לְעֹלָם בְּשַׁגַּם הוּא בָשָׂר וְהָיוּ יָמָיו מֵאָה ...
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Has the “Mäṣḥafä Kedus” (Holy Scriptures) of Beta Israel been translated into English?
From Wikipedia:
Mäṣḥafä Kedus (Holy Scriptures) is the name for the religious literature. The language of the writings is Ge'ez. The holiest book is the Orit (from Aramaic "Oraita" – "Torah") which ...
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When was music attached to trope?
My shul's chazzan and I have a good relationship, B"H. I ask him nusach questions; he asks me (A Torah reader) Torah questions. So, I'm passing this on from him...
We both understand that the main ...
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Sources for the location of the Red Sea
I am looking for Jewish sources that touch on the question of where (on a modern map) the crossing of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds) took place.
In my research, I'm finding several possible locations, ...
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Is there a surviving Jewish translation of the entire Masoretic Text in Greek?
Please don't say "the Septuagint" because I know that this has fallen out of favor among most modern Jews (the only exception being Beta Israel, which I believe still uses it - correct me if I am ...
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Which Mitzvot have their observance described in Tanach?
Despite the more or less direct reference to the 613 Mitzvos in the Torah, only a few of them are mentioned in the text explicitly to be observed in fact.
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Zecharia 14:4 vis-a-vis the reality of Har haZeisim being a cemetary?
This question has bothered me on and off over the years - typically around this time as we read this perek on the first day of Sukkot as the haftarah:
וְעָמְד֣וּ רַגְלָ֣יו בַּיּוֹם־הַ֠הוּא עַל־...
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What books discuss general rules of Tanach? [closed]
In particular, I am looking for books that deal with philosophical and linguistic questions on Tanach, such as:
If there is seemingly no reason to place one passuk before another, is it reasonable/...
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Criteria for special formats of some chapters in the Tanach Scrolls
Usually, when writing verses in Tanach Scrolls, words are written across the column from the right margin to the left (except, of course, for required Parsha spacing.)
I have seen two "special" ...
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best Hebrew-English Tanakh in printed form, interlinear if possible?
I've been using the Artscroll Interlinear series to read the Torah and it's helping me make a lot of progress in finally learning Tanakh Hebrew. But outside of the five scrolls and the psalms, ...
