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HaShem commanded Jews to eliminate Amalek. It seems that even very small amount of mercy toward Amalek is unforgivable. If HaShem hated Amalek so much, why did he create them? Apparently HaShem has an option not to make Amalek from the first place. Why did He create Amalek, then ordered Jews to destroy them?

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What do the rabbis say about these verses, in general? And more specifically, in verse 2 who is "they"? And verses 6-7, and finally what about David wearing the "linen ephod? Was this the ephod worn by the High Priest?   Thanks David

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Dear Rabbi, Are there forces or circumstances in the world that make a person a certain way, without the person being really responsible for options and results throughout life? For example, might a thief be innocent because of “the stars,” or fate or destiny? Thank you!

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I guest the title says is all but I am interested in the process of killing and preparing the animal lets say cow or lamb for sacrifice on the altar and the process of shechting the animal for Korban and the checking after shechita for Moom like current Shochtim do compare to the Shechita process if it is at all appropriate to call it that for Korban. For example is the animal let live up to the Altar? In current Shechita we do not know if the animal if Kosher till after the Bedika of the organs after Shechita. Also if we find a nick on the knife after that shechita is that also a problem? If the Animal in the Beis Hamikdash was led up the ramp live and Shechted on the top then where its organ checked afterward or not?

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Bethuel (Rebecca’s father) and Laban (Rebecca’s brother) are both referred to as Aramean. What is the significance of Aramean? Doesn’t that make Rebecca also Aramean? Yet the word Aramean is not mentioned in connection to Rebecca. Why not?

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Hi Rabbi, I hope you are well. I've got a question that I haven't received a satisfactory answer to, yet, and am wondering if you might know. In Rambam's introduction to Mishneh Torah, he lists the mesorah of the Torah She'Baal Peh, and says Pinchas was the link between Yehoshua and Eli (HaKohen). However, there is a gap of over 300 years between Yehoshua and Eli, over which the book of Judges covers the limited leadership in Israel over that period. Did Pinchus live that entire time?

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Dear Rabbi, I am puzzled about the symbolic nature of lions in Judaism. I recently saw a Synagogue with lions on the Ark’s curtains on either side of the Ten Commandments. I would like to understand this practice. Also, I wonder why it isn’t distasteful having the Ten Commandments surrounded by non-kosher animals. Thanks!

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do we know anything about menashes mother other than she was the daughter of Yeshaya Hanavi? when the gemara says that Chizkiyahu knew "thru Ruach Hakodesh" how come we seem to understand it as he knew thru nevua when they are two different ways of coming to know things? how can we hold Menashe responsible for his actions? does the Gemara that describes Chizkiyahus wife serving wine at his meal with the babylonian messengers have what to do with why Menashe was who he was? what is the meaning behind the story of Chizkiyahu throwing Menashe and Ravshakeh off his shoulders? (berachos 10, hagaos haBach)

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Shalom, I would like to hear from a Rabbi (using the Tanakh, not the internet), the names of the Patriarchs listed in order from Adam to Noah, and especially the meanings of their names listed in order. For instance, in Bereshit (Genesis) - Chapter 3 verse 20 "And the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life" seems to imply that the Tanakh itself defines the name Eve as meaning "the mother of all life". https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8167/jewish/Chapter-3.htm Adam appears to mean man (in my humble opinion, but cannot point to a specific definition verse as explicitly stated for Eve). Actually Bereshit (Genesis) - Chapter 5 verse 2 may be an acceptable definition for Adam means "man" https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8169/jewish/Chapter-5.htm Please show (at least 1 verse for each Patriarch) where the Tanakh defines their name meanings. Thank you very much.