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Why are none of the Pharaohs in the Torah identified by name?

parshanut-torah-comment names tanach egypt malchut-royalty
Oct 26 '17 at 21:20 Community♦ 1
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Can a Noachide continue to believe in religious tenets that are against the Torah?

gentiles theology
Nov 22 '16 at 11:55 Community♦ 1
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What is the oldest manuscript of Torah Shebaal Peh?

history talmud-gemara text oral-torah manuscripts
Jul 27 '17 at 19:34 Gary 2,072
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Why does the Hebrew alphabet not have letters representing vowels?

hebrew hashkafah-philosophy aleph-bet-letters
May 20 '19 at 16:42 Al Berko 21.6k
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May (or should) a convert recite kaddish after his biological parents' deaths?

kaddish kibbud-av-veim-honoring conversion-to-judaism
May 6 '14 at 15:10 Community♦ 1
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Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?

food derech-eretz-manners edim-witnesses
Dec 8 '17 at 15:37 Avraham Yakov Silverstein 790
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In what way are mushrooms considered “non-nutritive”?

food science mushrooms
Jun 22 '16 at 2:07 pcoz 1,473
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Can a kohen be a mamzer?

halacha kohen-priest mamzer
Jun 17 at 13:47 Dani 850
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Why, in double parshiyos, are the aliyos not simply combined in pairs?

torah-service parsha-torah-portion
May 9 '12 at 4:46 Double AA♦ 92.7k
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How “with” the congregation do you have to be in order to say the 13 Divine Attributes (middos)?

minyan selichot tachanun
Mar 24 '13 at 22:15 Community♦ 1
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Saying words of prayer or Torah while an immodest photo or drawing is in your field of vision?

tefilla torah-study tznius-modesty see-sight-vision-blind art
Oct 20 '17 at 4:16 kenmonson 1
 
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Description of what Yaakov's sons plundered from Shechem

words army-military-war vayishlach
Dec 9 '11 at 5:24 Community♦ 1
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Can anyone help decipher the bottom two lines of this inscription?

gravestone-inscription hebrew
Aug 25 '19 at 19:17 Glorfindel 302
 
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Why not “Where is Achashverosh in the Torah”?

parshanut-torah-comment talmud-gemara megillat-esther
Mar 5 '12 at 5:46 Community♦ 1
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Why do many (most?) people call the upcoming holiday “Peysach”? [closed]

words hebrew passover pronunciation language
Aug 30 '17 at 23:18 Argon 3,269
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Jewish names commonly used in a different form than found in Tanach

halacha tanach names pronunciation spelling-variants
Jul 12 '16 at 23:13 DonielF 32.7k
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Why is “Kedoshim tihyu” (Lev. 19) interposed between the chapters about illicit relations?

parshanut-torah-comment parashas-kedoshim
May 3 '12 at 3:05 Fred 16k
 
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Connection between the metzora's purification and the Four Species of Sukkos?

parshanut-torah-comment lulav-etrog-arba-minim tzaraas-negaim parashat-metzora sifra-toras-cohanim
Aug 27 '19 at 13:11 user15464 11k
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Why is המחזיר אבידה לכותי singled out?

gentiles talmud-gemara lost-and-found
Aug 19 '16 at 5:28 Community♦ 1
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“Veadar” as the name of the extra month in leap years?

history hebrew names calendar adar
Feb 3 '14 at 16:57 msh210♦ 72.3k
 
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How does a door hit against a lintel (משקוף)?

rashi etymology architecture-design
Mar 15 '12 at 7:54 Community♦ 1
 
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Why were the prophecies of Eliyahu and Elisha not written as separate books?

tanach books-generally navi-prophets
Nov 17 '11 at 1:26 Alex 88.2k
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What is the shortest interval during which we read publicly from each of the five Chumashim?

calendar torah-reading
Jun 17 '11 at 21:53 Isaac Moses♦ 46k
 
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When a goel (close relative) redeems property, who actually takes possession?

halacha transactions real-estate
May 17 '11 at 21:44 msh210♦ 72.3k
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Retention of urine causing infertility?

talmud-gemara medicine science infertility
Jan 2 '20 at 1:00 Community♦ 1
 
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Why only beginning with the fourth plague is the exemption of the Jews mentioned?

parshanut-torah-comment am-yisrael-jewish-nation bo plagues-makkos va-eira
Dec 29 '13 at 0:10 Community♦ 1
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Why is this not a valid way of evading the prohibition of ribbis?

lending-interest-ribbis business
May 9 '12 at 5:00 Community♦ 1
 
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“A life for a life”: execution or reparations

parshanut-torah-comment murder torts-damages maseches-sanhedrin
May 7 '12 at 22:49 Double AA♦ 92.7k
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Riddle: when do 10 Kohanim equal 1 Yisrael? [closed]

riddle kohen-priest
Oct 6 '10 at 19:49 Community♦ 1
 
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Prediction of the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash - seemingly out of place

parshanut-torah-comment beis-hamikdash churban-destruction bechukosai sifra-toras-cohanim
Aug 27 '19 at 13:18 user15464 11k
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