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Questions related to how something was in the past, and how it's developed since then.
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Are there two or three Rabbi Rashash?
As far as I know the main ones are the two mentioned in your original post. Rabbi Samuel Strashun is best known as a commentator on the Talmud. Rabbi Shalom Sharabi was an 18th Century post-Lurianic K …
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What were the Nephilim?
Rav Yehudah Fatayah in his Minchat Yehudah to Genesis 6:4 suggests that they were a larger strain of humans. One should really read it inside (including his comments to previous pesukim) to understand …
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Can someone point to some pre Holocaust (the older the better) Sefarim that address antisemi...
Gemara Megillah daf 13b the Talmud has a drash of Haman's explanation to King Achashverosh in Esther chapter 3 about why he should kill the Jews. It's shocking how timeless many of these complaints ar …
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When was the concept of large-scale Hechsherim introduced and was it controversial?
Nowadays, Jews in America and Europe often rely on national or regional hechsherim whereby a product is certified as kosher by a rabbi the consumer does not know (and may not even really know who the …
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Earliest Identification of Ishmael as Arabs / Muslims
Both Jewish sources and Muslim sources seem to take for granted that at least some Arabs and/or Muslims are somehow descended from Abraham's son Ishmael (whether biologically or spiritually). See, for …
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What Is the "Standard" Shulchan Aruch Page Based On? How Many Dapim Are There?
There are many editions of the Shulchan Aruch and they do not all follow the same pagination. However, many editions I have seen call themselves "tzurat hadaf" and appear to have a similar layout and …
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