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Hashem comes to the Ohel Moed to chastise Miriam & Aharon for slandering Moses (Yeridah #8 or #9) / Aaron suffers through Miriam's tzarat (leprosy) / Moshe prays for Miriam to be healed / Spitting in the eye of the Metzora / Different 7-day Halachot (Metzora, Zav, Zavah, Aveilut) / Ending off with the word Tahor / Rav Zeira/Ze'ira: A Niddah (menstruating woman) needs seven clean days to become pure / The Copper Snake heals those who spoke Lashon HaRa / Rofeh Cholei Amo Yisrael (summary of the Brachos of the Amidah in Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer) / Missing Parts of Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer: Avraham is beaten up for teaching up monotheism, Atlantic Ocean cannot be measured, not writing the Oral Torah so that it won't be translated, King Solomon and the two-headed half demon, stipulating at the time of creation that seas will split, the Throne of Glory carries the Chayos, the Eitz Chaim is in the middle of Gan Eden, Michael is the Sar HaOlam, a segulah for fertily by eating a rabbit's stomach) / Making a Siyum on Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer

Was Ziporah a Cushite? / In what way did Miriam & Aharon slander Moses? / The Jews are called Cushites because of their good deeds / Jeremiah is saved by Eved-Melech the Cushite (= Baruch ben Neriah) / Zedekiah is called a Cushite King / Was Tzidkiyahu a righteou king or not? / Mahari Kara: Jeremiah is saved by a slave of the Cushite King / A Jewish Kushi tells King David that Absalom was killed / The Righteous & Loyal Cushi / People with super-human Adam-like qualities (Shimshon = Strong, Shaul = Height, Asahel = Speed, Yoshiyahu = Good nose, Zedekiah = Eyes, Avshalom = Hair, Asa = Feet, Uzziyahu = Forehead, Zerubavel = Voice) / Avshalom sees the entrance to Gehinnom beneath himself / King David prays to take Avshalom out of Hell

Sexual restraint & verbal restrain during the month of Shvat and Shovavim / Yosef is the paragon of the Tzaddik (Yesod) / One who slanders forfeits his portion in the World to Come / A real picture of the Chafetz Chaim / A "curse" as a lower-level prohibition / Speaking Lashon HaRa is destructive / The Jews complain about Hashem & the manna only to be punished by fire / The Jews prefer a plague to a fire / The Divine Fire of Punishment rests underground & consumes Nadav & Avihu, plus Korach's congregation / The Chronology of the Mitonnenim (Complainers) Story / The Divine fire also helps those who die achieve atonement

#6 Joshua stops the sun at Gibeon to delay the onset of Shabbos & neutralize witchcraft / Why didn't Yehoshua want to fight in Givon on Shabbos like he did in Yericho? / Other times the sun stood still (the first Shabbos during creation of the world, when Moshe fought Sichon) / A solar eclipse at Gibeon / When did the story at Gibeon happen (in October or in Tammuz)? / #7 Chizkiyahu overcomes his deathly illness through prayer / Isaiah gives Hezekiah a sign by moving the sun / Hezekiah shows off to the Babylonian king Merodach Baladan by opening the Ark in the Temple / Was the Ark of the Covenent captured by the Babylonians or hidden elsewhere? / Rabbi Eliyahu of Izmir: Lessons from the 7 Wonders of the World & explaining which miracles make the cut

#1 Abraham is saved from a fiery furnace / #2 Sarah gives birth at the advanced age of 90 / What was the great miracle behind Sarah's pregnancy? / Sarah nurses everybody's babies / #3 Yitzchak looks like Avraham, Avraham asks God to make himself look visibly old / #4 Jacob prays for people to get sick before they die / Blessing a person who sneezes (Chaim, Gesundheit, Asuta) / #5 The Red Sea turns into Dryland at the Exodus

Will the Third Beis HaMikdash come down from Heaven already built or will man need to build it? / A special gate in the Temple only opens on Shabbat & Rosh Chodesh / Kiddush on Shabbos & Rosh Chodesh / A special gate for Hashem that is supposed to remain closed / Only the righteous will be renewed / Ezekiel sees a river flowing from the future Temple in Jerusalem / Sweeting the Salt Water Seas

Renewing & reconsecrating the Jewish People like the moon / The Davidic Dynasty waxes for 15 generations & then wanes for 15 generations / Unfurling the Heavens like a scroll & like clothes / 7 Cycles of 7,000 Years until the Great Jubilee / The Celestial Bodies will wear out in the future / God renews all of creation every day / The sun bathes in the fires of the Dinor River / The sun will be 49 times stronger / The Korban Mussaf on Shabbos & Rosh Chodesh allude to the future, God's uniqueness & the election of the Jewish People / Bringing a Korban Chatas (Sin-offering) atones for God making the moon smaller / Appeasing those whom we wronged / The Greeks opposed Shabbos, Rosh Chodesh, & Bris Milah because these elements symbolize the Jews' special relationship with Hashem (Zos Chanukah)

Mordechai the quintessential Jew / Expounding Mordechai's names (Ben Yair, Ben Shimi, Ben Kish, Ish Yemini, Malachi, Bilshan) / Mordechai = Merodach = Marduk / Mordechai discovers plot against Achashverosh / Yosef's buried treasure / The Chaldean Language (Akkadian?) / Haman rises to power and plans his Final Solution / Haman Draws Lots (Month, Day, Week) / Mordechai & Esther plan for Hashem's salvation / Not relying on the miracle of Shemen HaMishchah (oil of annointing) / Why is fasting better than eating matzo?

Haman's son Shimshai the Scribe / Achashverosh wants to reward Mordechai / Hatred in the Heart / Giving a king's honor to Mordechai / Haman grooms Mordechai & serves as his foot stool / Esther's party with Haman & Achashverosh / Charvonah = Eliyahu HaNavi / How many sons did Haman have? / Mordechai becomes a mini-king / What was on the coin minted by Mordechai?

Calculating how long Nebuchadnezzar reigned (40, 43, or 45 years) / Calculating 70 years of the Babylonian Exile / Babylonians -> Medians -> Persians -> Greeks / What about Cambyses and the hidden years? / Achashverosh's opulent party / Vashti is killed on Yom Kippur / When was the 180-day party (Summer or Winter)? / Vashti refuses to join the party naked / Memuchan = Daniel or Haman

King Saul pities Agag, king of Amalek / Leaving over Amalekite animals for ritual sacrifices / Amalekite sorcerers use magic to turn into animals / Riding a human donkey in the marketplace / Agag is an ancestor of Haman; Shaul, of Mordechai / Who will defeat Amalek (Binyamin, Yosef, Rachel)? / Shmuel HaNavi kills Agag and makes a comment about childless women / Eisav's opposition to Jewish Women / All the Matriarchs descend from Haran / A gnat in Titus' skull / Nebuchadnezzar the Midget

The 5 Final Letters allude to the Geulah (Redemption) / Serach bas Asher confirms that Moshe is the real deal (Pakod Pakaditi) / The Secret of the Double Peh / Making Bricks & Mortar / Rachel, daughter of Shuselach (connection to Methuselah) / The Jews exit Egypt in the day (not at night) / 4 Times to start the day (midnight, midday, sunrise, sunset) / Redemption in the merit of Yichud Hashem / Maintaining Hebrew Names & the Hebrew Language

Moses sees an Egyptian hit a Levite Hebrew / The 3 Signs Moses Presents the Pharaoh / Pharaoh's magicians cannot mimic the Plague of Boils / The Ten Plagues / The Blasphemer is the son of Shlomis bas Divri & an Egyptian / God uses 10 Fingers / Why does the Gemara start from the pinky, not the thumb? / Dipping one's finger in wine at the Passover Seder / Thumb War against Yishmael (oyev) & Eisav (soneh, tzar) in Messianic Times

When did the enslavement in Egypt begin? / When was Miriam born? / The Children of Efrayim leave Egypt 30 years early / Who killed the Ephraimites (Egyptians or Philistines)? / What did the people of Efrayim do wrong (haughtiness, miscalculating the time of redemption, violating the oath)? / The bitter part of the exile lasted only 83 or 86 years (one hour in God's time) / Throwing Jewish boys into the Nile River / When was that decree enacted - before Aharon was born or afterwards? / The Birth of Moshe / Moshe is named Yekusiel or Tov (Moshe's 10 Names) / Did Bithiah speak Hebrew? / Basya saves baby Moses

Abraham questions Hashem's promise & receives bad news about the future enslavement / Chronology of the events of Abraham's life (his age at the Covenant between the Pieces) / The Jews were only in Egypt for 210 years, not 400 / Yocheved is born in Egypt, but her mother conceived elsewhere / Did Levi meet Moshe & Aharon? / Why is the miracle of Yocheved giving birth at the age of 130 not mentioned in the Torah? / 430 years begins from the birth of Efrayim and Menashe (day & night reckoned separately) / Adding 30 years to the 400 year exile & changing the whole calendar / Completing the years of the Egyptian Exile before the arrival of the Messiah

The Theology of the Baal Peor cult / Promiscuity & Idolatry are especially bad / Sexual immorality weakens the Tzelem Elokim & leads to Avodah Zarah / Pinchas spears Zimri & Kozbi in their sexual organs / The priestly presents of the forearm, cheeks, & stomach / Pinchas prayed for the end of the plague / Pinchas = Eliyahu (double theophoric name) / 80 Kohanim Gedolim descend from Pinchas / Can Eliyahu HaNavi's wife get remarried? / The prohibition of Stam Yaynam (gentile wine) / Spear (romach) = mercy (rachamim) = donkey (chamor) = womb (rechem) / Ibn Virga on the ban on gentile wine / The Festival of the First Vintage in the DSS / Wine leads to promiscuity / Pinchas leads the War of Revenge against Midian / Elazar's prophecy about what to do with Midianite vessels / Why did the Jewish Soldiers bring back Midianite women?

Jews are on a higher level than angels / Do Jews die because of Adam's sin or because of the sin of the Golden Calf? / Why do we light candles on Erev Shabbos? / Freedom from death = Dying by Divine kiss / The angels take back the crowns they gifted the Jews / Yeshiva = Sitting with tranquility & complacency / Did the Jews stray after Moabite woman or Midianite women? / Are Midianites black? / The Midianites entice Jewish Men with cheaper deals / The etymology of the word aphrodisiac / Sinning under the influence of wine / The prince of Shimon publicly fornicates with a Midianite princess

Limitations of the Satan's Power / Does the Satan have power on Yom Kippur? / Sukkos is a time for repentance from love / The Scapegoat as a bribe to the Satan / Why is the Scapegoat not considered Avodah Zarah? / Imitating the ministering angels on Yom Kippur / The Minhag to stand the entire Yom Kippur / The angels violate the ban on cooking meat & milk together / Going to the Mikvah on Erev Yom Kippur / Moshe wants to "see God" before asking for forgiveness / Who said the 13 Attributes of Mercy (Moshe or Hashem)? / Why didn't Moses ask for atonement for all future sins as well?

Who wrote the second pair of Luchos (Tablets)? / The number 40 represents a new creation / The angels are jealous of the Jews receiving the Torah & Moshe's response / The angels wanted the esoteric parts of the Torah without its simplest, literal meaning / Supernatural remedies / Investigating the Letters of the Torah / Blowing the Shofar on Motzei Yom Kippur / When does Yom Kippur offer its atonement? / Why is Yom Kippur called Shabbaton? / Dying on Erev Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur, & Motzei Yom Kippur / Yom HaKippurim = Yom Kippur = The One Day of the Year / Yom Kippur & Purim will always continue to exist

What day of the year was Matan Torah (6 Sivan or 7 Sivan) & what day of the week (Friday or Shabbos)? / Eating dairy on Shavuos because the Torah was given on Friday / Moshiach will come in 1990 / How long did Matan Torah take? / The Jewish Men return to their wives ("tents") / Moshe separates from his wife / Studying the Written Torah during the day (male, sun) & Oral Torah at night (female, moon) / Moshe breaks the Luchos on the 17th of Tammuz / Moshe spends 40 days wiping out idolatry from amongst the Jews / Seder Olam: Moshe Rabbeinu spends 3 periods of 40 days atop Mount Sinai / Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Chodesh Elul amp; the entire month of Elul / Not blowing Shofar on Erev Rosh HaShanah / Tekiah-Teruah-Tekiah: Sounding the Shofar "sweetens" the Din (Elokim) into Rachamim (Hashem) / Rachamim begins after Chatzos (Midnight) / The Torah makes man free