The Chumash (Five Books of Moses)
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Biblical Candelabra
I have been searching for a picture or description of a biblical age candelabra. i am under the impression that is was of gold made into tubes through which flowed olive oil. It did not have tubes but was from…
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Snake on the pole
Why was the snake chosen to be looked upon for healing (the bronze snake on a pole-Moses). I would think another type of symbol would be used for healing, rather one that represents evil. Why not a lamb or a…
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Cain’s Wife
Genesis 4:17 says ‘And Cain knew his wife’. Who can this wife be if Adam and Eve only had 3 sons! The Medrash writes that together with Cain and Abel were born three girls. Each married one and according to…
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The “cut off” soul
Leviticus 7:27 “Any person who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from its people.” Does “cut off” imply that a Jewish soul can be murdered? It means that it is spiritually cut off from it’s root in…
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G-d in Physical Terms – Leviticus 26:12
Please could you explain to me Leviticus 26:12, “And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be My people.” I thought that anyone who sees G_d will not live; yet he walks among us?…
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Fallen Angels
The Torah mentions the Nephilim as giants in both sections Genesis 6-4 and book of Numbers. Who and what are they? I have had conflicting answers that they were fallen angels to just a story thrown in as filler? Can…
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Joseph and King David
In Genesis 37 12-20, if Joseph was so important to Jacob, why did he allow him to travel so far alone when he knew there were problems with his brothers? And who was the stranger he meet in the fields,…
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Rotation of the Sun and Earth
Someone told me that the Torah claims, I don’t know if explicity or implicitly, that the sun travels around the earth. I would appreciate if you can elaborate on what he meant and if there is real substance or reason…
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Who killed Cain?
When Cain kills Abel and hashem threatens to expel Cain from the Garden of Eden, Cain complains if you send me out there they will kill me. Where did these people come from? Hi! Thanks for the question. There are…