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First published 500 years ago as the “Rabbinic Bible,” the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of...

ABARBANEL’S QUESTIONS ♦ How can a just God “visit the guilt of the parents upon the children” (v. 5)? IBN EZRA A sculptured image. Whether of stone or wood. Nor shall you worship any likeness whatsoever, made by any form of art. What is in the heavens above. The planets, the constellations, the sun and the moon. On the earth below. In the form of any beast, creeping thing, or bird. Even birds are considered to be “on the earth,” as we see from Gen. 1:22, “let the birds increase
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