Tanach Trivia (real!)

Sam4321: I looked up the R’ Efraim. He does not say that Binyamin was a werewolf Chas V’Shalom. What he says is that the Ze’ev that Binyamin is compared to is reffering to the werewolf. He then goes on to show similarities between Binyamin and a werewolf. However, Binyamin was a human being like the rest of us. As a matter of fact he was a tremendous Tzadik and one of the four people who never sinned (Bava Basra 17a).

The fact that he mentions the werewolf is very interesting, to say the least. Thanks for the sefer chassidim reference. I didn’t know that either. Quite frankly I don’t know what to make of it. Could it be that these things once existed but no longer exist, like many inyanim of kishuf and sheidim etc. Or perhaps since this is what the world accepted as truth, the chachamim accepted it as well (at least misafeik), similar to what the world believes today to be scientific ‘facts’, but will be proven wrong tomorrow(as is often the case).

Longarekel: the Teiva on har Ararat,and Shancheirav’s children fled to Ararat.

It is interesting to note nisroch who he was praying to was a board from the teivah(Rashi), and after his sons killed him they fled to Ararat which has affiliation to the teivah.

The daughter of Kalev. What’s her name. Achsah. I always forget it. I always think it’s Asnat or something.

Who wore horns (artificial, and NOT ‘karan or panav’)?

writersoul: you are correct,he did not have children.

Sam4: The R’ Efraim in vayigash definitely seems literal(I didn’t look it up yet). What do you think of all this(please see my previous post)? Regarding ararat, I also had that observation. There is a medrash that sancheriv planned on killing his two sons as a korbon to nisroch and that’s why they killed him. So maybe they ran to ararat to ‘atone’ for nisroch(board of taiva) not receiving the korban. Here’s something interesting: Sancheriv is the same gematria as nisroch. His son Esar Chadon who was king after him is also gematria nisroch. Therefore since they ran to ararat to seek asylum by the taiva itself, they were spared since the taiva was the avoda zara of the king. Lehavdil in this week’s parsha, if a murderer runs to the mizbai’ach he is not spared. Writersoul: Tzidkiya Ben Cena’ana made horns of iron, however I am not aware that he wore them. Bekitzur: Malbim says that the cold waters of the yarden would normally have a negative effect on tzara’as. Therefore to make the neis bigger he used those waters to heal him. I suspect there might be another answer.

bekitur: Navi during Rechavams rule.

Writersoul: It was Ittai.He placed the crown on Dovid?

Sam I was going to say Shmaya and Avtalyon but this is a Tanach trivia thread.

New Question:

In Parshas Ki-Sisa 33,11 – Rashi in the 1st D”H V’shov el hamachane (twds end), states that on 10 Tishrei (Yom Kippur), HaShem was appeased to Klal Yisroel with simcha and a complete heart, and he told Moshe “Solachti Kidvorecha” and then gave him the 2nd luchos.

Can anyone tell me what Rashi’s source is?

(To my knowledge, the only time Hashem said Solachti Kidvorecha was in Parshas Shelach after the sin of the Meraglim).

Chevraman: See meshches Taanis 30b Rashi Sh’nitnu bo, and Rashi ends with Kach Shemati.

The posuk says that there were more than 120 thousand people that don’t know their right from their left. Rashi and others understand that to mean 120 thousand children. If you assume a 2:1 ratio between adults and children, there were more than 180 thousand people in Ninveh at the time.