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A Captive Woman’s Transition to Wife

She shaves her head, modifies her nails, changes her clothes, and mourns her parents for a month in the house of her captor. What is the significance of these requirements? What do they reveal about her transition into a new home?

Prof.

Melissa Ramos

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Is Yellow a Biblical Color?

If a man or woman suffering from tzaraʿat, a skin disease, has hair that turns tzahov, they are impure. In modern Hebrew, tzahov means yellow, but what does it mean in the Bible?

Prof. Rabbi

Phil Lieberman

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