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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 '12 at 3:09

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Why does the Hebrew alphabet not have letters representing vowels?

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

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

torah-service parsha-torah-portion asked Mar 16 '12 at 16:25

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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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May (or should) a convert recite kaddish after his biological parents' deaths?

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

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

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VIM Ctrl-V Conflict with Windows Paste

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How come 'ou' was reduced to 'o' in the US?

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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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What's the difference between scp and sftp?

Did courts ever execute?

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Custom to refrain from eating meat at the Pesach Seder?

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Why is Judaism not Racism?

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

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why create non kosher animals?

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How would Har Sinai without the Torah have been enough?

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Let there be light! But from where?

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Nittle Nacht Meaning

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

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Is Christianity Avodah Zara?

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Noach Burial Place

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Possessions on a tree where Hung

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Meforshim Nick"names

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Our Father who art in heaven

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Is being vegan “kosher”?

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Why does the Torah forbid interest only on loans to Jews?

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Putting Tefillin on Un-educated Jews

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What does א.ד.ג.‏ stand for in Yiddish?

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Are sea sponges kosher?

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What is the rarest Haftarah?

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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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how to survive if you are hanging on to some aveiros

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Why isn't “Adam” a traditional Hebrew name?

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What is the typical retirement plan for a Chabad-Lubavitch shliach (emissary)?

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Spouses in Tanach whose names start with the same letter?

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