2 yr ago:
In this week's #Torah portion, we read about an item used in the building of Yahweh's portable home. Nobody knows what a "tachash" is; those who claim that there was an "oral Torah" claim to know.
Yes, they killed the only unicorn in the desert! :-))
~ Elisha ben Abuyah
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#Terumah
In this week's #Torah portion, we begin to look at the different types of acceptable slavery.
Just as the "10 commandments" [sic] endorses owning human property, the biblical texts explicitly accepts and demands it in different places.
Different authors had different views.
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#Mishpatim
In this week's #Torah portion, we read that a man who inadvertently causes the death of another will be put to death.
Two books later, we read that one who does manslaughter has to participate in a "Running Man" style game where he can be killed if his pursuer catches him.
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#Mishpatim
In this week's #Torah portion, we read about Joshua ben Nun. Who, in a later narrative, is called Hoshea, until Moses renames him as Joshua.
Different author's narratives stitched together.
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The "10 commandments [sic]" forbade one from coveting his co-religionist's "ahma". Likely because the human property listed couldn't be sold, once owned.
In this week's #Torah portion, we learn about the "ahma".
She's not a "maid servant", but a conjugal slave-girl.
#Mispatim
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In this week's #Torah portion, we read of the first 3 of the 10 plagues, which not only affected the Egyptians, but the Hebrews as well.
That will teach them!
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#Vaera
In this week's #Torah portion, YHVH introduces himself (several times! - different authors stitched together) and makes a claim that is different from the Genesis authors.
The apologetics on this are excruciatingly to listen to!
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#Vaera
In this week's #torah portion, we read of Moses commanded YHVH, and YHVH obeying Moses.
Their relationship seems a bit...complicated!
#Vaera
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In this week's #Torah portion, we come across a number of puns. Here are just 2 found together in one verse:
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#Vayeitzei
The Biblical patriarch Jacob is often referred to as righteous, which requires lowering the bar and making some of the other characters into villains.
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#Toldot
This week we have another Biblical Etiology - "How the land of Edom got its name". There is a lot of wordplay here.
The eponymous relationship between Israel and Edom is portrayed through these two characters.
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#Toldot
In this week's #Torah portion, we have the slave of Abraham testifying/swearing by placing his hand on his lord's testicles. (The derivative for "testify").
"Thigh" and "feet" are often used as euphemisms in Biblical Hebrew for the genitals.
#TheMoreYouKnow
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#Chayei_Sarah
3/3
Isaac could have been pissing in the fields, pleasuring himself, or many other things.
Some folks like to pretend he was praying, which would have been uncharacteristic of him.
#Chayei_Sarah
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2/3
In this week's #Torah portion (Gen 24:63), we are introduce to a word for which there is no certainty of its meaning, and it only occurs once in the entire #Tanach
So translations have to get creative.
#Chayei_Sarah
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1/3
In this week's #Torah portion, Isaac is mentioned as needing a wife, and his dad dips into the family gene pool.
Where Isaac was after his dad was about to slice is throat is unknown!
#Chayei_Sarah
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