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39 Questions

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

Why does the Hebrew alphabet not have letters representing vowels?

Can a Noachide continue to believe in religious tenets that are against the Torah?

What is the oldest manuscript of Torah Shebaal Peh?

Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?

May (or should) a convert recite kaddish after his biological parents' deaths?

In what way are mushrooms considered “non-nutritive”?

Why, in double parshiyos, are the aliyos not simply combined in pairs?

Can a kohen be a mamzer?

How “with” the congregation do you have to be in order to say the 13 Divine Attributes (middos)?

Description of what Yaakov's sons plundered from Shechem

Can anyone help decipher the bottom two lines of this inscription?

Saying words of prayer or Torah while an immodest photo or drawing is in your field of vision?

Why not “Where is Achashverosh in the Torah”?

Why do many (most?) people call the upcoming holiday “Peysach”? [closed]

Jewish names commonly used in a different form than found in Tanach

Connection between the metzora's purification and the Four Species of Sukkos?

Why is המחזיר אבידה לכותי singled out?

“Veadar” as the name of the extra month in leap years?

Why is “Kedoshim tihyu” (Lev. 19) interposed between the chapters about illicit relations?

How does a door hit against a lintel (משקוף)?

Why were the prophecies of Eliyahu and Elisha not written as separate books?

What is the shortest interval during which we read publicly from each of the five Chumashim?

When a goel (close relative) redeems property, who actually takes possession?

Why only beginning with the fourth plague is the exemption of the Jews mentioned?

Why is this not a valid way of evading the prohibition of ribbis?

“A life for a life”: execution or reparations

Retention of urine causing infertility?

Riddle: when do 10 Kohanim equal 1 Yisrael? [closed]

Prediction of the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash - seemingly out of place