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Expiating with Blood - TheTorah.com
In modern research, these “bloody” questions have provoked a startling amount of ink-shed. Semitic Etymology.…
Blood Vengeance in Ancient Near Eastern Context - TheTorah.com
Blood Vengeance in Ancient Near Eastern Context.…
Blood and Frogs: Plaguing Egypt with Impurity - TheTorah.com
Blood, Frogs, and Impurity.…
Postpartum “Bloods of Purity” - TheTorah.com
Postpartum “Bloods of Purity”.…
Is Atonement Possible Without Blood? A Jewish-Christian Divide
Blood in the Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, blood is both dynamic and powerful.…
Source Criticism: It’s in the (Plague of) Blood - TheTorah.com
The Complex Plague of Blood.…
Revising the Laws of Murder to Accommodate Blood Vengeance - TheTorah.com
Revising the Laws of Murder to Accommodate Blood Vengeance.…
The Mitzvah of Covering the Blood of Wild Animals - TheTorah.com
The Mitzvah of Covering the Blood of Wild Animals.…
Predators Are Prohibited, Why Are Ducks Kosher? - TheTorah.com
animals or consume blood.…
Breaking the Heifer’s Neck: A Bloodless Ritual for an Unsolved Murder - TheTorah.com
Does “this blood” refer to the blood of the dead person or to that of the heifer?…
The Parturient’s Days of Purity: From Torah to Halacha - TheTorah.com
Distinguishing between Bloods with “Science”.…
Hunting: How It Became Un-Jewish - TheTorah.com
Return the Blood to YHWH.…
Meat or Murder? - TheTorah.com
The one who spills the blood of man, by man his blood will be spilled, for He made man in the image of God.…
A Sin Offering for Birth Anxiety - TheTorah.com
rites of smearing of blood on the birth seat, which is strikingly similar to the biblical sin offering involving the smearing…
Haazinu: The Song's Enigmatic Climax - TheTorah.com
The connection between land and blood stands behind the story of Cain and Abel, when God tells Cain that his brother’s blood is…
The Origins of the Biblical Pesach - TheTorah.com
Liminality and Blood.…
The Plague of Dead Fish - TheTorah.com
Categories: Credit Gerald Simmons / Flickr 2.0.Before There Was “Blood” There Was “Fish”.…
Why “Passover”? On the True Meaning of Pesaḥ - TheTorah.com
In Exodus, in preparation for the first Passover, the Israelites are instructed to slaughter a lamb and smear its blood on the…
Eve’s Voice Is the Inclusio to the Cain and Abel Story – Maybe It’s Her Story Too - TheTorah.com
זרעיותיו, “his blood and the blood of his seeds.”[7] Cain’s murder of Abel denied life to Abel’s children and children’s children…
A Murderous Bridegroom - TheTorah.com
And Zipporah took a flint and cut the foreskin of her son, and touched his legs, and said, “For an in-law/bridegroom of blood…
Niddah (Menstruation): From Torah to Rabbinic Law - TheTorah.com
Once the blood has cleared, it would seem that the husband and wife are permitted to resume sexual relations.…
Does the Torah Differentiate between Murder and Killing? - TheTorah.com
And the blood-avenger comes upon him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the blood-avenger kills (רצח) the manslayer…
Tzaraʿat Purification: A Vestige of Demonic Exorcism - TheTorah.com
Blood.…
The Enigmatic Rites of the Red Heifer - TheTorah.com
After the slaughtering but before the burning, the priest overseeing the rite sprinkles some of the heifer’s blood toward the…
