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Number of dead after the Golden calf
The Zohar in Parashat Balak says that it was actually just two people, Yonos and Yombros, the sons of Bilaam. But they were as significant as 3000 insofar as they had led the people astray. This is ...
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Should Genesis 1:4 say that the light "was" or "is" good?
The sentence itself is indeed in past tense but Hebrew almost always omits the copula, so it would have no tense, so literally, He saw the light, that it good, or that it ["be"] good.
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