2010- Masei sources -- revamped.
a - Harmonizing the order of the Bnos Tzelophchad -- Yet another instance of the Samaritan Torah going about its program of harmonizing texts to make them consistent or solve problems.
2009
- Masei sources -- links by aliyah and perek to an online Mikraos Gedolos, plus a variety of meforshim on the parsha and haftara. Plus a bunch of meforshim commenting upon Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Targum, Midrash, and the Masora.
- Mizrachi's map -- I make no interesting points here, but show an image of a map from Mizrachi in explaining a Rashi.
2008
- What did the king of Arad hear? Did he hear that they were coming, or did he hear of the death of Aharon and that the Israelites were vulnerable?
- "And Moshe Wrote" -- does this indicate extra material tacked on? And how this relates to the dispute between Ibn Ezra and Ramban whether al-pi Hashem is connected to the Israelites' travels or with Moshe's writing.
- Furthermore, Ibn Ezra's reading is against the trup. But is it possible that Ibn Ezra did not realize this? I think it likely.
- Did Joshua add the section about Arad? Why would we think that, and how we can resolve this.
- The Egyptians, occupied with burial. And how that may easily translate to Rava's midrash about why "the land which consumes its inhabitants" was a good thing for the spies.
2007
- Was any daughter of Tzelaphchad smarter than any other? The dispute between Rashi and Rashbam, in interpreting the relevant gemara.
- The marriage of the daughters of Tzelaphchad, and marrying in birth order.
- *If* Yovel comes -- can Yovel cease?
- Moshe Rabbenu's Beis Medrash. Was Torah not in Shamayim, even in the days of Moshe?
2006
- Shadal on Lectio Difficilior, Rabbi Akiva on Biblical Techum Shabbat
- both on the same difficult source text.
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