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Some Rabbis sought to identify “petah einayim” with the Biblical Enam mentioned in Josh.
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The Torah relates that when Tamar realized that she would not be given to Shelah, she planned how she would become pregnant by Judah and “sat down at the entrance [be - petah] to Enaim [einayim, literally, “eyes”]” (v. 14).
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The midrash tells that Tamar cast her eyes to the portal [petah] to which all eyes are cast (i.e., she cried out for help), that is, God, and said: “May it be Your will that I not leave this house empty” (Gen. Rabbah 85: 7).
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Major Shee, a somewhat intemperate and unfortunate Irishman, commanded the 33rd during the time Wellesley served as one of Harris's deputies and Lieutenant Fitzgerald, brother of the Knight of Kerry, was killed in the confused night attack on the Sultan-petah tope, probably by a bayonet thrust.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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The position taken up by the army lay to the northeast of the petah, or town, and the next morning a reconnoitring party, escorted by
The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib 1867
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But on this secret negociation coming to the knowledge of Furtado, he made a furious assault on the works, which were at the same time assailed on the land side by 6000 Nayres, by which joint attack the lower town or petah was taken, plundered, and burnt.
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At this time the zamorin was battering the walls of the town or _petah_, and desired that some
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Mandow, and the ascent from the petah, or town, to the top of the rock, is near a mile.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Tamar’s plan is simple: she covers herself with a veil so that Judah won’t recognize her, and then she sits in the roadway at the “entrance to Enaim” (Hebrew petah enayim; literally, “eye-opener”).
Tamar: Bible. 2009
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