Esau’s attempt to block Jacob’s burial at the Cave of Machpelah ends in his gruesome death.
Dr.
Malka Z. Simkovich
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The standard Aramaic translation of the Torah, Targum Onkelos, usually renders place names in the original Hebrew or leaves them out. However, there are exceptions.
Prof.
Michael Avioz
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Originally Leviticus 18 prohibited homosexual incest with a man’s father (v. 7) and his uncle (v. 14). When the prohibition of male homosexual intercourse was added, the Torah modified the aforementioned laws and consequently changed the meaning of לגלות ערוה “to uncover nakedness.”
Prof.
Idan Dershowitz
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