Part 7 - Textual Amendments
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
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An examination of several proposals to amend the biblical text shows that while the amendment might make sense on a superficial level, they miss various...
Part 6 - Textual Witnesses and Textual Amendments
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
The Masoretic text is the most complete and most accurate extant testimony for the Tanakh, nevertheless, there are many other ancient textual witnesses,...
Part 5 - Development of the Masoretic Text
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
The Masoretic version is indeed accepted as authoritative, but since the Tanakh is such a remarkably complex work, including tens of thousands of details...
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
There are examples of the keri u-khetiv phenomenon that indicate the possibility of linguistic errors and grammatical updates, but there are also...
Part 3 - The Version of Chazal and the Masora Version
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
The Masoretes lived between the 8th and 10th centuries, and sought to establish a uniform version of the text that would be accepted, from that point...
Part 2 - The Text of the Tanakh during the Period of Chazal
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
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From various sources it can be concluded that during the time of Chazal the version of the Tanakh was for the most part fixed and uniform, but in some...
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
From time immemorial, great care has been taken concerning the precise transmission of the text of the Tanakh, which has been regarded as having the...
Rabbi Dr. Tamir Granot
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This shiur examines the three blessings that Yaakov receives: From Yitzhak when he impersonates Esav, from Yitzhak when he leaves for Haran, and from God...
Rabbanit Sharon Rimon
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The story of the sale of the birthright is one of the strangest stories in all of the Torah. Why does Yaakov want to buy the birthright? Can a birthright...
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
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Rivka is often viewed as the heroine in the story of the blessings: she disguises Yaakov as Esav so that her younger son will receive Yitzchak's blessing...
