Mi Yodeya
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Butterfly and Bones
  • Member for 7 years, 9 months
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17 Questions

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5 votes
2 answers
474 views

Cherubim & Ark of Cov. description paralleled to (or inspired by) Egyptians?

5 votes
1 answer
247 views

What is the Testament of Hezekiah? I know it exists, but can't locate it

7 votes
3 answers
3k views

Why were the pillars of Solomon's Temple named Boaz and Jachin?

3 votes
2 answers
369 views

Which source more accurately depicts Goliath's height?

18 votes
7 answers
3k views

Is the title: "New" Testament offensive to Jews? Alternative neutral name?

1 vote
2 answers
2k views

Where does the custom of the "tossing of the sandal" in Ruth come from? Why/How does it come to symbolize a successful business transaction?

0 votes
1 answer
1k views

Proverbs 8:22-31. Woman Wisdom personified or actual being?

1 vote
1 answer
141 views

What is the significance of the 7 spices in Shir Hashirim 4:14? Why are they the chief spices? More so than the ones in the Keterot?

1 vote
1 answer
248 views

Online commentary for 3 ENOCH -- a Hekalot & Merkevah, mystical, apocalyptic, pseudepigraphal, Jewish text (400CE)?

1 vote
1 answer
184 views

Was it customary for there to be an annual lamentation for someone's death, e.g. the daughter of Jephthah? Details as to her mourning process?

1 vote
0 answers
83 views

Was Potiphar, being a captain of an Egyptian guard, likely a eunuch? [duplicate]

3 votes
1 answer
102 views

Midrash Genesis Rabbah 1.11 -- clarification to the answer the children recieved about the two forms for mem, nun, zade, peh, & kaf?

1 vote
2 answers
280 views

Why would Pharaoh's heart be made כבד by G-D?

3 votes
1 answer
3k views

Why does Nero convert to Judaism in folio 56a in tractate Gittin in the Babylon Talmud?

-1 votes
1 answer
98 views

Megillah 4.6 -- Why can't the blind recite the Shema with their benedictions (according to R. Judah)?

1 vote
1 answer
103 views

Genesis Rabbah (ch. 1 "On Creation") available online?

2 votes
1 answer
413 views

Throwing dust on head = common mourning ritual?