Questions tagged [nevua-prophecy]
questions pertaining to prophets and prophecy
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Is God Ever in Two Places at Once?
Are there any instances, ideally in Tanakh, where God's physical manifestation of Himself is present in two separate locations at once? Or more poignantly, are there instances of God speaking/...
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Does one prophet ever prophesize to another in Tanach?
In 1 Kings 13 a prophet, whom Hazal identify as Iddo, receives a prophecy from another prophet. Are there any other times in Tanach where two people are identified in the text as being prophets where ...
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Was Deuteronomy 18:15, interpreted messianically in Judaism?
Deuteronomy 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren—him you shall heed— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of ...
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Do the screeds against Jerusalem in the prophets only apply to their original context or do they do double duty as prophecy about 70 CE?
Do Jewish scholars consider it appropriate to understand the Shoah of c. 70-74 CE through the prophetic screeds regarding the destruction of Jerusalem and the first Temple?
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What was the point of using the Urim v'Tummim to know the will of God if there was prophecy?
In Tanach the Urim v'Tummim (hereafter UT) are often used by kings or other leaders to discern the will of God, to, for example go to war (or not). However the process of getting an answer from the UT ...
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Free Will after Exodus
There are many sourcese.g. 1,2, that discuss what happened to the world after the splitting of the sea, and the giving of the Torah, implying that the whole world heard what happened. Everyone knew ...
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Why the was the enslavement prophecy made to Abraham?
The Torah says:
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְאַבְרָ֗ם יָדֹ֨עַ תֵּדַ֜ע כִּי־גֵ֣ר ׀ יִהְיֶ֣ה זַרְעֲךָ֗ בְּאֶ֙רֶץ֙ לֹ֣א לָהֶ֔ם וַעֲבָד֖וּם וְעִנּ֣וּ אֹתָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה׃
וְגַ֧ם אֶת־הַגּ֛וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר ...
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Did Samuel delay fulfilling the commandment of God?
In 1 Samuel 9:16 God tells Samuel that the next day he is sending a man from Benjamin whom Samuel is to anoint as king. Samuel meets Saul and rather than simply anoint him, he invites him to a meal (...
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Why is there no prayer for the return of prophecy?
In our prayers we ask for the return of judges, the line of David as king and a return to Jerusalem among many other things. I am not aware of any prayer which asks for a return of prophecy, prophets ...
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When did the Jews cry out about their king in fulfillment of Shmuel's prophecy?
In 1 Shmuel 8 Shmuel the Navi explains the laws of the king to the Jewish people and concludes with an apparent prophecy in pasuk 18:
וּזְעַקְתֶּם֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא מִלִּפְנֵ֣י מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר ...
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Do messianic prophecies have to occur immediately or can they all be fulfilled over a longer period of time before and after his arrival?
We have a wide swath of prophecies and information regarding the messianic age and the events which are to happen both prior and during mashiach.
My question is whether the timelines of such events ...
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Were there prophets, in and out of Israel, who were not recorded in the Tanakh? [duplicate]
Were there prophets, in and out of Israel, who were not recorded in the Tanakh? Have other sources determined the identities of some of them? Please cite the sources, if any. Thanks in advance.
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Is it possible to have prophecy and visions from the sitra achra?
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Is it possible the that the vision the person is receiving coming from a source of impurity or sitra achra or is this just called sitra achra and yetzer hara? Like are there levels to this that is ...
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What are the peculiarities of a school or company of the prophets לַהֲקַ֚ת הַנְּבִיאִים֙ (1 Samuel 19:20)?
What are the peculiarities of a school or company of the prophets לַהֲקַ֚ת הַנְּבִיאִים֙ (I Samuel 19:20)?
What did one learn in a school of the prophets?
How did one become a student in a school of ...
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Was it accepted that prophecy ended?
Judaism holds that prophecy was removed in the early 2nd temple period.
Was this view widely held accross Jewry of the 2nd temple, only held by Pharisees, or only made up later?
Did you get folk ...
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