Why does Israel release live Arab terrorists (who admit they will kill again if they can!) in exchange for the corpses of Jewish dead? Is this a Halachic thing? A Zionist thing?
Let's examine the image of the ladder closely
When Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. And Jewish Communists sided with the Party!
Similar things are happening today ...
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If the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the physical world and its history, then the non physical interpretations are NOT at the expense of the literal meanings.
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Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?
"אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why
Giving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century
Yaakov acquires claim to Israel through purchase, a sale subsequently resented by the seller. Sounds like Jewish History in Israel 1880-1948
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One of the great speeches in the English language of the 20th century חֲבָל עַל דְּאָבְדִין וְלָא מִשְׁתַּכְחִין
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Whole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...
Was it just a case of political intrigue? Or did people sincerely distrust Nathan re: the David Bathsheba story?
Abraham's visit to his relatives in אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם
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It all goes back to 1657 and that strange episode of English Christian would-be missionaries who sent money to Jerusalem to save the starving Jews there.
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Elisha does not blame the death of the child on the woman's sins. "The Buck stops here!"
כִּי הִנֵּה אוֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָיוּן וּמְשַׂנְאֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ רֹאשׁ:
ד עַל עַמְּךָ יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד וְיִתְיָעֲצוּ עַל צְפוּנֶיךָ:
ה אָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַכְחִידֵם מִגּוֹי וְלֹא יִזָּכֵר שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹד:
ו כִּי נוֹעֲצוּ לֵב יַחְדָּו עָלֶיךָ בְּרִית יִכְרֹתוּ:
ז אָהֳלֵי אֱדוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִים
According to Rashbam, there is no tikkun sofrim in this parsha!
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The fight over the language of קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת
Are we seeing a long-internalized resentment by Italian Catholics to the liberalized theology towards the Jews adopted by The Church in 1965?
The other Hellenistic Judaism, not identical with Talmudic Judaism (but not un-frum) but more widespread, once upon a time .
Part 1 of a 2 part series
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Though outnumbered, Klal Yisroel will rip through the enemy like a thresher. So do not succumb to enemy efforts to undermine your morale
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