Rabbi Daniel Fleksher
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I am an open-minded person with a great love and respect for the Torah, our traditions, and our leaders. I also see great value in secular knowledge and am always looking to synthesize the two.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Can you give me some info on these, what they found, and there significance? The Dead Sea Scrolls are a wide assortment of documents found near the Dead Sea in Israel. Most notable is that they include many portions of…
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Edom and Moab locations
Where are Edom and Moab located on today’s map? Basically Edom and Moab made up most of the territory which is present day Jordan. Moab was around the Dead Sea area with Edom to its north.
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Proselytizing
What is the Jewish perspective on proselytizing? Is there a written law, or an accepted law that Jews are not a missionary people (although I know that we once were.) What caused the change, and why do we maintain this…
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Beyond description
If we believe that G-d is totally beyond our understanding, imagination-which for me is very logical, how can we describe Him as being one you can’t describe something that you cant imagine The Torah in many instances attributes “human” characteristics…
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Torah, which to study first
What are all the Torahs? (example:midrash,tanach,zohar) What is the order of studying them? (example:first:midrash 2:zohar and so on.) Torah (as in “THE” Torah) generally refers to the Five Books of Moses that are written on a Torah scroll–Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,…
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The Struggle in Rivkah’s Womb
Why are the babies struggling inside Rivkah? The sages teach that a battle of cosmic forces was going on in the womb. It was representative of the eternal battle between morality and justice on one side, represented by Jacob, and…
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Ezekiel and the Unchanging Torah
Tradition states that the Torah will never be “amended” or changed in the future but how come Ezekiel comes up with a prophecy that dictates new sacrifices that would be brought to the third temple. If the Torah can’t be…
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Born with a Clean Slate?
According to Jewish belief it is my understanding that all human beings are ‘bad’ but have been created since they have the potential to be ‘good’. Therefore even babies – who come ‘clean’ to this world – are in the…
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Exodus 6:14-26 – abbreviated lineage
What happened to the other 9 sons of Jacob? Why weren’t their children listed? Why only the sons of Korach? What happened to his brothers, Nepheg and Zechir and their families? It seems as if this whole section was added…