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Yitro = Reuel = Deuel = Hovav? On 1/31/2010Who exactly is Moses father-in-law? Who is the priest of Midian? Various traditions in the Torah suggest they may be different people, but the names given are Yitro, Reuel, Deuel, and Hovav. Jewish tradition conflates the names into one character. via JPS Tagged Tanakh | The Tagged Tanakh Remark [...] The 17th day of the month of Tammuz is a fast day according to Jewish tradition. The Mishnah Taanith IV 6 states that there are five reasons for fasting on this day: Five calamities befell our fathers on the 17th of Tamuz… On the 17th Tamuz the Tables of the Law were broke, the daily sacrifice [...] Here is a matter where the halakha is decided according to a variant reading the Talmud had that is not in the masoretic text of today’s Torahs And, most significantly, sometimes the Talmud bases laws on the spelling of particular words (e.g., the number of compartments required in the head tefillin),17 yet the spelling differs from [...] My comment: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:30:00 AM How is including parashat bilaam different from including quotes from moabite songs or the sefer milchamot hashem? במדבר כא:יד עַל-כֵּן, יֵאָמַר, בְּסֵפֶר, מִלְחֲמֹת ה’ במדבר כא: כז על-כן יאמרו המשלים, באו חשבון What is the basis for the problem of Moshe writing the parasha? Also, does this issue of the “authorship” of [...] Benjamin said… Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:52:00 AM Somewhat off-topic: Yair Zakovitch in his good “lo kakh katuv baTanakh” writes that Joshua was not buried in serah but at heres (archaic for ‘sun’) and amasses other evidence to demonstrate that there was a repressed mythology in Joshua giving him superpowers over the sun. regarding: the ‘bin’ in ‘bin Nun’. [...] | ||||
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