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The different traditions passed down through the generations.
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Preservation of the text
The reference if I'm not mistaken is to Sefer Ha'azarah (ספר העזרה, the Book of the Temple Courtyard), a Torah scroll preserved in the Temple and used for making other Torah scrolls. This Torah scroll …
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Why did Joshua only burn Hazor
That's a bit of a misunderstanding of Rashi.
Here's the Hebrew of Rashi:
"בַּמָּסוֹרֶת שְׂרָפָה משֶׁה צִוָּה לוֹ וּמָסַר לוֹ כֵּן. (בראשית רבה וישלח)."
Masoret means tradition, but it literally mean …
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Transmission of Kabbalah - what happened after Shlomo Hamelech?
After checking MS Bar Ilan 2851 and the fairly-recent critical edition of the book (ספר ברית המנוחה: מהדורה מדעית ומבואות, by Oded Porat), it seems that this section did appear pretty much as-is in th …
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Problem in the text of Kings and Chronicles
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "does Judaism recognize this situation" since Ochlah v'Ochlah is an ancient Masoretic book (here is the relevant page, by the way), but there are a couple of old …
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Daniel or Danel
As this question is still open, I will attempt to explain the issue. In the comments, you expressed relief when I mentioned that I knew of religious (Orthodox) Jews who saw no problem with Daniel of E …
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Inverted Nun in Haran?
Rashi did indeed have a different Mesorah, as well as many other Jews. The differences weren't as significant as those between our Mesorah and, say, the hypothesized Hebrew vorlage of the Christian LX …
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Who are the Elders in the beginning of Avot
As @kouty wrote, the last of the elders was Eli. This can be inferred from a number of sources, such as Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 115:1:
"עמדו זקנים ומסרוה לנביאים בעמידה. עמדו נביאים ומסרוה לדוד בעמידה …
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Simanim at the end of the Parshah
A good essay on the subject (in Hebrew)1 is Dr. Aharon Ahrend's "The Mnemotechnical notes of the numbers of verses in the Torah Portions", Rabbi Mordechai Breuer Festschrift, pp. 157-171.
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Rabbi Yosef Maman and the Bukharian Jews
According to Wikipedia, Rabbi Yosef Maman, a Shad"ar who came to Bukhara in the late 18th century, discovered that the Bukharian Jews believed they were descendants of the Ten Tribes and used the Pers …
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Rabbi Yosef Maman and the Bukharian Jews
So it turns out that there are a number of books that discuss the history of the Bukharian Jews including this important turning-point in their history, such as:
מסע בארץ הקדם by אפרים ניימארק
מבוכאר …
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Why do we have many teachings from Hillel and Shammai, but very few of earlier zugot?
Per @RabbiKaii's request:
The reason that the teachings of the Zugot have been lost seems largely based on the reality of classic tannaitic and amoraic texts not including much of any of their teachin …
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Would a conversion witnessed by three Jewish sheidim be approved?
Short answer: It's complicated, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be approved.1
Long answer: The core issue here, I believe, is whether or not a shed, even one termed "Jewish", can actually, halachicall …
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