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Why are none of the Pharaohs in the Torah identified by name?

parshanut-torah-comment names tanach egypt malchut-royalty asked Jan 9 at 3:09

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Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?

food derech-eretz-manners edim-witnesses asked Dec 15 '11 at 20:28

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Why does the Hebrew alphabet not have letters representing vowels?

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In what way are mushrooms considered “non-nutritive”?

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Why, in double parshiyos, are the aliyos not simply combined in pairs?

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How “with” the congregation do you have to be in order to say the 13 Divine Attributes (middos)?

minyan selichot tachanun asked May 24 '11 at 18:30

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Can a Noachide continue to believe in religious tenets that are against the Torah?

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Can anyone help decipher the bottom two lines of this inscription?

gravestone-inscription hebrew asked Nov 8 '10 at 0:02

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Description of what Yaakov's sons plundered from Shechem

words army-military-war vayishlach asked Dec 9 '11 at 3:42

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What is the oldest manuscript of Torah Shebaal Peh?

history books-generally talmud-gemara text oral-torah asked Jun 29 '11 at 21:47

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VIM Ctrl-V Conflict with Windows Paste

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Is there a term for words that have a single meaning or are only used in a single context?

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why create non kosher animals?

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Did courts ever execute?

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Why is Judaism not Racism?

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Custom to refrain from eating meat at the Pesach Seder?

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Riddle: when would a couple be forced to break their engagement?

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What is the rarest Haftarah?

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How would Har Sinai without the Torah have been enough?

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Proper bracha on Chanuka candles: lhadlik ner (shel) Chanukah

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How many Maccabees were there and what were their names?

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Should a Jew who doesn't believe in G-d observe the commandments?

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Is Christianity Avodah Zara?

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Why doesn't the OU put DE on food packages anymore?

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Is being vegan “kosher”?

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Are we allowed to charge interest or not?

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Why do we say that Hashem chose us if He offered to the Torah to all the other nations first?

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Putting Tefillin on Un-educated Jews

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Parashas Shavua calculation

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Shalsheles Trop

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Nittle Nacht Meaning

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Meforshim Nick"names

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Moshe's divorcing Tzipora

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Avram-Avraham; Yaakov-Yisroel; Yitzchok-?

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Haman was Basar b’Chalav, so how could we eat him?

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Image of God: Equality and Discrimination

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