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Which Books Didn’t Make It Into Tanakh? The Surprising Truth - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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  1. 0:00Okay, so just just to go over again the very last point that I made that…
  2. 4:05becomes a shiny but if the touches another piece of tumor that other piece does not…
  3. 8:10me at a meal that according to him says if you touched during a day you…
  4. 12:15ocean be a mikvah? Uh the ocean can be a mikvah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Even though…
  5. 16:22So, unlike you see, the amora that said Koheles and Shir Hashirim were excluded, they actually…
  6. 20:30in a canonization controversy. So, in his life there were still controversies regarding Shir Hashirim and…
  7. 24:35and again, we don't know what how this works, a convocation of the common. Now, maybe…
  8. 28:40are considered to be historical books. The Book of the Maccabees, there is nothing in the…
  9. 32:44that those books that were included, there were some opinions that wanted to exclude them. Okay.…
  10. 36:46That is actually taken from the Book of Ben Sira, which is describing Shimon HaTzaddik. So,…

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