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Friday, July 29, 2011

Natan Slifkin surprised by the disfavored hyrax

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B”H Natan Slifkin (NS) after acknowledging his surprise by the publication of the new letters supporting the identification of the biblica...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

The Nature of "The" Rakia, Part Eight--A Superior Understanding of Pesachim 94b?

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A s promised, I shall deal with the passage in Pesachim 94b that describes the sun as travelling behind the rakia at night. Now, it...
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Hyrax out of favor

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B”H Recently Natan Slifkin announced the publication of the 2nd edition of his book on the hyrax = the biblical shafan. In that new book...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

The Nature of “The” Rakia, Part Seven--Chazal Did Not [at] All Think the Celestial Rakia is Opaque

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Rabbi Slifkin’s final mistake pertains to what he claims Chazal held about the opacity, or lack thereof, of the celestial- rakia. He poin...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Nature of “The” Rakia, Part Six—Mistranslation…Again—“חזק” Means “Strong,” Not “Hard”

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“Chazal (and most of the Rishonim) universally interpreted various words in the Torah to be describing the heavens as a solid firmament abov...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Natan Slifkin again attacks… but did not respond.

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B"H Recently NS published Religion, Blinded where he wrote: I was once challenged by some such people to have a debate on the meri...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

The Nature of “The” Rakia, Part Five—The Rakia and The BiasSphere

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No, “BiasSphere” is not a misspelling; [1] just a new coinage. In this post, I will analyze the Malbim’s comments on the passage “יהי רקי...