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A bat kol decided between the Houses of Hillel and Shammai in favor of the House of Hillel, according to a Talmudic sugya in which the bat kol said, Elu ve-elu, these and those are the words of the living God (Eruvin 13b). Shimon bar Yochai emerged from his stay in a cave only after receiving permission from a bat kol. [26]
Psalm 1 is the first psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English King James Version: "Blessed is the man", and forming "an appropriate prologue" to the whole collection according to Alexander Kirkpatrick. [1] The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, [2] and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
Cain's sister is named Kalmana in the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (first Greek redaction) II.1., [8] and Calmana in the Golden Legend. The poet Petrus Riga (1140–1209) included Calmana in his famous poem Aurora, and this could have been a source for her appearance in Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Comestor's Biblical narrative text ...
The 1537 book Yihus HaAvos V'Neviim (Lineage of the Patriarch and the Prophets) describes the tomb as "a handsome building up on the mount, where Jesse, the King David's father is buried." It includes a drawing of the site, and notes an "ancient Israelite burial ground" nearby and Crusader courtyard.
In reference to 2 Samuel 5:6, which refers to a saying about the blind and the lame, Rashi quotes a midrash which argues that the Jebusites had two statues in their city, with their mouths containing the words of the covenant between Abraham and the Jebusites; one figure, depicting a blind person, represented Isaac, and the other, depicting a ...
Leaf from a vellum manuscript of Tobit, c. 1240 Rembrandt: Tobit Accusing Anna of Stealing the Kid (1626). The Book of Tobit (/ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ t /) [a] [b] is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites). [1]
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The first section introduces the subject of the narrator’s previous life as a bat and asserts the claim that disbelief in reincarnation is proof of not being “a serious person.” [2] For evidence, the narrator creates a syllogism listing as proposition 1 that “a great many people believe in” past lives and as proposition 2 that “sanity is a general consensus about the content of ...