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  • In the miqra it clearly states “to Elohim”, but over the course of a few hundred years of text you can see it change from the priests, then to a bet din than must have a priest, and finally to a bet din with language that insults the priests.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

  • "Shimush bilti ragil shel kinnuy ha-remez ba-miqra ':' Edut nosefet le-'Ivrit tsefonit bi-tqufat ha-miqra ',"

    DailyHebrew.com 2009

  • Because it was banned that’s correct, a mitsva from the miqra, banned because it threatened the social fabric of a society that had a new legal device, the ketuba, that controlled marital “affairs”.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

  • I’m not suggesting a return to literal understandings of the miqra like the Karaites, but rather one unburdened by the anti-gentile intermixing gezeroth.

    Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

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