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Parsha Pages — insights into sefer yonah — Sukkos 5787
Выпуск: Parsha Pages — insights into sefer yonah — Sukkos 5787. Темы: kashrut, family_education, women_modesty, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, цниют, скромность, tzniut, modesty, צניעות, пурим. Year Since Total Total Total Total Sefer Creation Verses Chapters Words Letters Yonah 3055-3083 48 4 688 2,700 This "exceeding great city" lay on the eastern or left bank of the river Tigris, along which it stretched for some 30 miles, having an average breadth of 10 miles or more from the river back toward the eastern hills. These four great masses of ruins, with the whole area included within the parallelogram they form by lines drawn from the one to the other, are generally regarded as composing the whole ruins of Nineveh This "exceeding great city" as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris, along which it stretched for some 50 kilometres (30 miles), having an average breadth of 20 km (10 mi) or more from the river back toward the eastern hills Why was Sefer Yonah Included in Tanach? The Question The Radak begins his commentary on Sefer Yonah with a basic question: One might ask: Why was this prophecy [of Yonah] written in the Kisvei ha'Kodesh, seeing as how (a) it is entirely about Ninveh, which belonged to the gentile nations, and (b) it contains no mention whatsoever of Israel? Before we tackle this question, it would be prudent to review Chazal's general criterion for which prophecies were included in Kisvei ha'Kodesh and which were not: Many prophets arose for Yisrael - twice as many as the [number of Jews who] left Egypt - but only those prophecies which were necessary for [future] generations were written down, while those which were not needed for future generations were not written (Megilah 14a). Rashi (ad loc.) explains the phrase "a prophecy which was necessary for [future] generations" to mean "[a prophecy which was necessary in order] to teach teshuvah or horaah (instruction)." One might think that this statement of Chazal paves the way for an answer to the Radak's question, namely, by allowing us to infer that Sefer Yonah was written and included in Kisvei haKodesh in order to teach some lesson in teshuvah or horaah to future generations. Answer #1: Catalyst for Teshuvah Radak's firs
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INSIGHTS INTO SEFER YONAH YONAH FACTS BACKGROUND WHY WAS SEFER YONAH INCLUDED IN TANACH THEMES IN SEFER YONAH YONAH ATTAINED PROPHECY DURING THE FESTIVAL WHY DID YONAH FLEE? YONAH’S OBSESSION WITH THE BAIS HAMIKDASH WHY DID YONAH RUN AWAY CAN ONE BELIEVE THAT YONAH SURVIVED IN THE WHALE? WAS YONAH REALLY IN THE WHALE FOR THREE DAYS? TASHISH AND TESVHUAH REPENTANCE OF NINVEH WHY DID THE TESHUVAH OF NINVEH NOT LAST? THE FAMOUS UNANSWERED QUESTIONS OF SEFER YONAH www.parshapages.com Collection compiled hopefully for the elucidation of Torah YONAH יונהFACTS Based on the Medrash and the pasukim: 1. The book of Yonah is read every year in the synagogue on Yom Kippur as the Haftara after the afternoon Minchah service reading from the Torah. 2. Yonah is an appropriate reading on the Day of Atonement as the message of this profoundly deep and heavily veiled prophetic metaphor is ultimately simple and completely universal: Repent! 3. Yonah (=dove) son of Amitai (from the root EMeT=Truth). 4. Yonah lived after King David and the Prophet Samuel and was a student of the Prophet Eliyahu. 5. His widowed mother sheltered Eliyahu from the wicked Izevel, and in gratitude, Eliyahu resuscitated her…
Темы: kashrut, family_education, women_modesty, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary