Biblical History
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The Torah Starting with a Beis
Why does the Torah begin with the Hebrew letter "B" instead of with "A"? The Talmud Yerushalmi (Chagigah 2:1) says that the Torah begins with a "B" instead of an "A" because the word "baruch" ("blessed") begins with "B", whereas…
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The Book of Enoch
What is the Book of Enoch? Answer: The Book of Enoch bears the name of the Patriarch Enoch, great-grandfather of Noah, and consists of discourses on apocalyptic and cosmological subjects. Two such books are extant; both of them can be…
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Noah and Abraham
Who came first in the Torah, Noah or Abraham? Noah was born Ten generations before Abraham. Rabbi Meir Goldberg