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The verse in question comes from Leviticus 17:15: "And every soul that eats neveilah (carcass) or treifah (what is "torn")… he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water…” Okay, pre...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. And in the Sifrei Bamidbar, a mishnah of legal commentary on the Book of Numbers, they explore this very idea, using the story of the Israelites i...
It's not just you! Sometimes, the text does seem redundant. But guess what? That repetition is often a clue, a hint that something deeper is going on. to one of those moments in Ba...
It deals with a rather specific scenario: what happens when someone steals from a convert to Judaism, a ger, and then that convert dies? The verse in question is Bamidbar 5:8: "And...
Feeling guilty, the thief swears falsely about it – adding insult to injury! Now, they want to make amends. They gather the money they stole, plus the offering needed for atonement...
The ancient rabbis certainly did! to a fascinating corner of the Sifrei Bamidbar (a legal commentary on the Book of Numbers) and wrestle with a surprisingly practical question abou...
That tension, that space of uncertainty, is precisely where we find ourselves in this passage from Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of legal interpretations expanding on the Book of N...
The bits that make you scratch your head and think, "Wait, what was that all about?" Well, today we're diving headfirst into one of those fascinatingly strange passages: the case o...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating, and admittedly unsettling, passage from Sifrei Bamidbar, a collection of legal interpretations related to the Book of Numbers. It deals with...
