Questions tagged [prophecies]
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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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Prophecy about the destruction of the second temple?
Are there any prophecies about the destruction of the second temple?
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Yechezkel 26-28 - a reference to America/The West?
Have there been any Rabbis claim that Yechezkel's prophecy of destruction and lamentations about צֹר/Tyre is also a reference to a modern day country? Clearly the pshat is talking about the ancient ...
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Why do angels have wings?
Winged angels became probably the most ubiquitous depiction of all kinds of divine beings, based on Isaiah's vision (Isaiah.6.2)
"Seraphs stood in attendance on Him. Each of them had six wings: ...
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How should one understand the reference to ‘horsemen’, ‘bows’ and ‘arrows’ in the Gog / Magog prophecies?
Shalom.
I am a bit confused by the reference of ‘horses’ and ‘horsemen’, ‘bows’ and ‘arrows’ in Yechezkel 38 and 39. It certainly would be a greater miracle than the one described if mankind were ...
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What is the earliest statement that the world is to exist for six thousand years?
I have seen various versions of this idea:
The world is to exist six thousand years.
In the first two thousand there was desolation [no Torah];
two thousand years the Torah flourished;
and the next ...
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What prophets are referred to in Deuteronomy 34:10?
Deuteronomy 34:7-12
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was
unimpaired and his vigor had not abated. 8 The Israelites wept for
Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then ...
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Is Magog associated with Germany?
Bereshit 10:2 reads:
בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ
וְתִירָֽס׃
Targum Jonathan to this verse reads:
בְּנוֹי דְיֶפֶת גוֹמֶר וּמָגוֹג וּמָדַי וְיָוָן וְתוּבָל ...
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In Judaism, must נְבִיאִים Neviim feel happiness in order לְהִנָּבֵא to prophesy?
In Judaism, must נְבִיאִים Neviim feel happiness in order לְהִנָּבֵא to prophesy?
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Now then, get me a musician.” As the musician played, the hand of the LORD came upon him, ...
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Prophecies refering or relating to one occassion or more?
Do prophecies only find their fulfillment once, or is it possible for them to be fulfilled more than once?
Do they only relate to one moment or one situation or is it also possible that they relate to ...
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What are the teachings regarding prophets nowadays?
Since the Talmud mentions that once, there were hundreds of thousands of prophets: twice as many as the number of people who left Egypt (Megillah 14a), but that many had messages only for their ...
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Prophecies about past or future events?
Why are some prophecies described as if they already happend, as if they occurred in the past, while at the time/moment the prophecy is spoken it all still has to take place and talks about the future....
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Since the Messiah is human, how long will he live?
The messiah is to be "anointed" and must be versed in the law which mean he would have been alive for a while, and then embarks on his duty by accomplishing the follow:
All Jews would be living ...
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Were there prophets who could “see” the past?
According to Wikipedia, Judaism holds that there were 48 males prophets and 7 female prophetesses mentioned by name in Tenakh, counting ONLY the Jewish ones. (Judaism recognizes that there were many ...
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