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The term appears in Exodus 12:38: "A mixed crowd also went up with them, and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds". [4] The "mixed crowd" is an English rendering of Erev Rav . While Exodus 12:38 is the only mention of the complete term Erev Rav in the entire Tanakh , the term Erev by itself (which also means evening in Hebrew), [ 5 ...
The Zohar taught that the "mixed multitude" (עֵרֶב רַב , erev rav) mentioned in Exodus 12:38 consisted entirely of Egyptian sorcerers and magicians, who sought to oppose God's works, as Exodus 7:11 reports, "And the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments." When they beheld the signs and the wonders ...
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר , Zōhar, lit."Splendor" or "Radiance" [a]) is a foundational work of Kabbalistic literature. [1] It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.
Doing the math implied by Exodus 36:4, Exodus 38:22, Joshua 14:7, and 1 Chronicles 2:19–20, the Gemara deduced that in earlier generations, a boy of eight could father children. Exodus 38:22 reports that "Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Ḥur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord had commanded Moses," when they built the Tabernacle.
From Exodus 12 the midrash was continued without interruption as far as Exodus 33:19, i.e. to the conclusion of the chief laws of the book, although there are many narrative portions scattered through this section whose midrash belongs properly to the aggadah. Furthermore, many aggadot are included in the legal sections as well.
J. Goldberger argues that the 42-letter name was derived by gematriya, representing either אהיה אהיה or אלוה. [12] Ignatz Stern wrote that it represents the names listed by Sifra d'Tziuta Ch. 4, [a] [13] winning the support of Ginsburg, [10] but this passage is not even as old as the Zohar. [14] Robert Eisler derives it from Ex. 34:6.
The Erection of the Tabernacle and the Sacred Vessels (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible). Vayakhel, Wayyaqhel, VaYakhel, Va-Yakhel, Vayak'hel, Vayak'heil, or Vayaqhel (וַיַּקְהֵל —Hebrew for "and he assembled," the first word in the parashah) is the 22nd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the weekly Torah portion and the 10th of the Book of ...
Elim (Hebrew: אֵילִם, romanized: ʾĒlīm), according to the Hebrew Bible, was one of the places where the Israelites camped following the Exodus from Egypt. It is referred to in Exodus 15:27 and Numbers 33:9 as a place where "there were twelve wells of water and seventy date palms," and that the Israelites "camped there near the waters".