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The presence of this event in a book of poetry has been interpreted as a poetic description of the prolonged battle. [2]According to the medieval Jewish scholar Rashi, "Sefer HaYashar" in this verse refers to the Pentateuch: Jacob's prophecy regarding Joshua's ancestor Ephraim—"His seed will fill the nations" [3] —was fulfilled when Joshua's victory gave him renown among the various ...
Yishar koach (or ShKoiAch) [8] יְישַׁר כֹּחַ You should have increased strength [jiˈʃaʁ ˈko.aχ] Hebrew Meaning "good for you", "way to go", or "more power to you". Often used in synagogue after someone has received an honour. The proper response is "baruch tiheyeh" (m)/brucha teeheyi (f) meaning "you shall be blessed." [1] [9]
The book covers biblical history from the creation of Adam and Eve until a summary of the initial Israelite conquest of Canaan in the beginning of the book of Judges.. The Bible twice quotes from a Sefer haYashar, and this midrashic work includes text that fits both Biblical references — the reference about the Sun and Moon found in Joshua, and also the reference in 2 Samuel (in the Hebrew ...
Book of Jashar, fictional translation of the supposed Book of Jasher mentioned in 2 Samuel by Benjamin Rosenbaum (born 1969) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sefer haYashar .
The provenance of the text was immediately suspect: the eighth-century cleric Alcuin could not have produced a translation in the English of the King James Bible. There is an introductory account by Alcuin of his discovery of the manuscript in Persia and its history since the time of Jasher, and a commendation by John Wycliffe.
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The Koren Bible was the first Bible published in modern Israel. The English translation in The Koren Jerusalem Bible, which is Koren's Hebrew/English edition, is by Professor Harold Fisch, a Biblical and literary scholar, and is based on Friedländer's 1881 Jewish Family Bible, but it has been "thoroughly corrected, modernized, and revised". [18]
Kav ha-Yashar (lit.The Just Measure; קב הישר), authored by Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover (c. 1648 [citation needed] –1712), a rabbi at Frankfurt and son of Aaron Samuel Kaidanover, is an "ethical-kabbalistic collection of stories, moral guidance, and customs", [1] and one of the most popular [2] works of musar literature.