RASHI AND MANUSCRIPT ESSAYS

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(April, 2019-December, 2020)

  1. Parsha and Manuscript - Bereishit: They heard the voice of G‑d walking in the garden
  2. Patriarchs: Noahides or Israelites?
  3. Noah and Abraham: A righteous person in his age
  4. Parsha and Manuscript - Vayera: Challenging G‑d
  5. Parsha and Manuscript: Toldot - ‘Do not go down to Egypt’
  6. Parsha and Manuscript: Toldot
  7. Parsha and Manuscript – ‘Vayetze: The reasons for the name Reuben’
  8. Parsha and Manuscript: Vayetze - ‘Wait this week’
  9. Parsha and Manuscript – ‘Vayishlach: Esau’s departure from Jacob’
  10. Parsha and Manuscript: Vayeshev - ‘Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings’
  11. Parsha and Manuscript: Vayigash - ‘He leads me beside still waters’
  12. Parsha and Manuscript: Vayechi – ‘ End of Days’
  13. Parsha and Manuscript: Shemot – ‘Comparing Israel to the stars’
  14. Parsha and Manuscript: Va’era - ‘The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart’
  15. Parsha and Manuscript: Bo - ‘Warning Pharaoh about the plague of locust’
  16. Parsha and Manuscript: B'shalach - ‘Why do you cry out to Me?’
  17. Parsha and Manuscript: Yitro – ‘What did Yitro hear?’
  18. Yitro Rashi Manuscripts and early Printed Editions
  19. Pasha and MS – Tetzave – ‘Pure olive oil crushed’
  20. Parsha and Manuscript: Vayikra – ‘G‑d Calling Moses’
  21. Parsha and manuscript: Tzav - 'A thanksgiving'
  22. Parsha and Manuscript – Sh’mini – ‘A faithful attendant’
  23. Parsha and MS – Tazria – ‘Signs of Baldness: a mistaken text?’
  24. Metzora in Manuscript: The day of his cleansing
  25. Metzora in Manuscript: Why two names?
  26. Parsha and Manuscript: Acharei Mot - ‘A parable of a physician’
  27. Parsha and Manuscript: Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself
  28. Parsha and Manuscript: Behar – ‘What exactly was taught at Mount Sinai?’
  29. Parsha and Manuscript: Bamidbar - ‘Why the repeated counting of the Jewish people?'
  30. Parsha and Manuscript: Naso – ‘The secondary counting of the Levite clan of Gershon’
  31. Parsha and Manuscript: Beha’alotecha – 'Why does the candelabrum follow the dedication of the altar: A missing commentary'
  32. Parsha and Manuscript: Shlach - ‘Miriam and the Spies: Why are they juxtaposed?’
  33. Parsha and Manuscript: Korach – ‘What did Korach take?'
  34. Parsha and Manuscript: Korach
  35. Parsha and Manuscript: Chukat – ‘The Red Heifer through Oxford’s Hebrew manuscripts'
  36. Parsha and Manuscript: Balak - 'How goodly are the tents of Jacob' through the Oxford Manuscripts of Rashi
  37. Parsha and Manuscript: The disparagement of Phinehus
  38. Parsha and Manuscript - Mass'ei: Why the Torah Details the Journeys from Egypt?
  39. Parsha and Manuscript: Masei - The listing of the journeys: provocation or love?
  40. Parsha and Manuscript - Devarim - 'Deciphering the place Di-Zahav in the Rashi manuscripts at the Bodleian Library'
  41. Parsha and Manuscript - Va'etchanan: The Power of Prayer
  42. Parsha and Manuscript: Ekev - Free Will in the Oxford Manuscripts
  43. Parsha and Manuscript: Re’eh – ‘Imitatio Dei’
  44. Parsha and Manuscript - 'Shoftim: Be wholehearted with G‑d’
  45. Parsha and Manuscript - Ki Tetze - 'Ethics of Usury'
  46. Parsha and Manuscript: Ki Tavo – Treasured and holiness: promise or commandment
  47. Parsha and Manuscript: Nitzavim and Vayelech - ‘G‑d in Exile’