As this ram was one of the ten things listed in Pirkey Avos (5:6) that were created right before Shabbos and was thus 1000+ years old - it was called an איל. Based on this, we can explain why Avrohom and Yitzchok spoke about a "שה" (another word for a young sheep), as they were surely not expecting to use a 1000+ year old ram as the sacrifice.

Mar 26, 2023 · The Torah in Vayikra 1:11 teaches us that, for example the sheep that was being used as an korban, needed to be slaughtered on the north side (צָפֹ֖נָה) of the altar: It shall be slaughtered before יהוה on the north side of the altar, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

May 23, 2024 · The Ibn 'Ezra suggests that they did in fact eat their flocks (Exodus 16:2): וילונו. במי מרה הלינו על משה לבדו כי הוא לבדו הסיעם וכל ישראל לא התרעמו רק קצתם.

Jul 10, 2024 · Based on this, it would seem that "Khir" refers to some idolatrous Phoenician deity, and therefore the name Chiram - חירם - is a contraction of Khir - חיר and Ram - רם. So, we get the following development: חירם < חיררם, with that name meaning "(the god) Khir is great".

Aug 23, 2015 · These are the only two times I've heard of an ibex horn being used for a shofar instead of the usual ram's horn, and in one case we only have an anecdote in the press. So I'm wondering: is or was an ibex horn commonly used anywhere? (If so, where and when?) Or would that be giving too much weight to a single Dutch artifact and some Italian stories?

Feb 15, 2018 · As the verse says [Num. 11:22]: "Could sheep or cattle be slaughtered for them and it suffice; or all the fish of the sea be gathered for them, would that suffice?!" [The parallelism implies that] gathering is to fish what slaughtering is to cattle and sheep. As for grasshoppers, it says [Is. 33:4]: "One who gathers the locust." -- I.e ...

Mar 15, 2025 · Meanwhile Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s tariffs. Lavan, Rachel's father was one of the forefathers of Arameans. The Imperial Aramaic , the Lavan's language, was actually the official language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire .

Feb 28, 2025 · Look more closely at the verses. In Devarim 14:29 and 16:14 the Torah speaks of the ger, orphan and widow בשעריך, "in your gates" - and Shach Al Hatorah (beginning of Parshas Shoftim) explains that the "gates" are those of the body: "the two eyes, two ears, nose, mouth and generative organ."

Apr 4, 2025 · In Mitzrayim, Jewish people sacrificed a paschal lamb and applied its blood to the doorposts of their houses. The Jewish people then ate it with matzah. One can see an obvious connection that in the ritual of miluim the kohanim sacrificed a ram (a grown lamb) and applied its blood to their right ear, right thumb, and right big toe.

@msh210: While it probably raises other questions: ""Everything that is the 'seventh' is beloved…In the listing of the generations, the seventh is beloved: Adam, Shet, Enosh, Keinan, Mehalalel, Yered, CHANOKH – 'And Chanokh walked with the Lord' (Bereishit 5:24); concerning the forefathers, the seventh was beloved: Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Levi, Kehat, Amram, MOSHE – 'And Moshe ...