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  • But regarding your son's son who is born from a gentile woman the pasuk does not say "your" because he is considered her son, that is, the gentile woman's son and therefore the child is not Jewish.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And yet in the same pasuk the Hebrew Bible says that one witness is not sufficient to condemn a murderer to death.

    The 1,000-page morality tale 2009

  • I think Shmuel haKatan even quoted a pasuk to that effect.

    Rav Ovadia’s Theodicy Strikes Again | Jewschool 2007

  • "You are my sister," he said again, "but I thank every pasuk that lives in these woods that you are not my wife."

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • Lastly the Massorah noted metrical structure by accents; at least soph pasuk and athnah indicate comlete lines or two hemistichs.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • In Avodah Zara, Raish Lakish uses a pasuk that refers to "Yom Hadin" to learn out that scoffers will get theirs on "judgment day."

    YUTOPIA Josh 2010

  • My daughter explained it is peshat, and read the pasuk that way.

    DovBear DovBear 2010

  • The preceding pasuk explains there was hail and thunder, four other times the story speaks of thunder.

    DovBear DovBear 2010

  • Interesting Abudraham who based on the pasuk saying "Betzem hayom hazeh" by asarah btevet would say fast even on Shabbat!

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

  • As others have commented, there are a number of paganistic practices that have gotten into Judaism in the past few hundred years - not just Kaparot, which clearly has no Jewish pedigree as a ritual and has been contested ever since it started, but since when does Tashlich a prayer said at a body of water, quoting a pasuk where God promises to toss our sins into the deeps involve actually throwing objects away as if they are sins?

    Samsonblinded Blinded By Ignorance | Jewschool 2007

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