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יצחק פרלמן: Sometimes, it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what remains.
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Baruch S. Davidson: In Genesis 25:1-6, Abraham married a woman named Keturah and fathered six children. Abraham sent off the children whom she bore "eastward, to the Land of the East." They and their descendents are therefore not bound by the commandments of the Torah, which was given solely to the Jewish people, Isaac’s progeny. The only command that was given to Abraham and his children was circumcision.
Dov Krulwich: If Isaac was given "everything," what were the "gifts" given to the children of Ketura? Rashi explains as follows: "Our Rabbis explained, he gave them a name of God (meaning a Divine incantation) for impure uses." Commentaries on the Talmud explain this "name of God for impure uses" as "secrets of magic and powers of demons." The Daas Zekeinim explains this as "names of demons that are enlisted to do whatever their masters say." The Maharasha’s commentary on the Talmud says that Abraham learned black magic only to be able to defend against it, not to use it. Similarly, the Maharal says that Abraham taught these secrets to the children of Ketura only for defense (making Abraham perhaps the first teacher of defense against the dark arts). Whatever books the Zohar is referring to, we see the Talmud and Zohar presenting a consistent connection between Jewish teachings and Eastern mysticism, brought east by the children of Ketura. While some commentaries indicate that "The land to the east" might be areas just to the East of the Land of Israel, most understand this to be referring to the Far East.
Zohar VaYeira, paragraphs 80-89, Torah Shleima English Edition on Gen 25:6: Rabbi Abba said: I once was in a town where the children of the east live, and they taught me some of their ancient wisdom and showed me their books of wisdom…. I said to them, my children, all of this is similar to what we have in our Torah, but you should avoid these books, to avoid idolatry…. The ancient children of the east possessed a wisdom which they had inherited from Abraham, who had imparted it to the children of his other wife…
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מַתִּתְיָהוּ: בינתיים הזהיר אותם אלוהים בחלום שלא לחזור אל הורדוס ומשום כך שבו חוזי-הכוכבים לארצם בדרך אחרת
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Yeah to all those asking why I don't speak Japanese I'm Filipino? Lol. well actually like Jewish fillipino so yeayyyyyy
— Isaac Newton【=◈︿◈=】 (@Notreekah) מרץ 1, 2015
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Tamar Kadari: According to one tradition, when Jacob saw Joseph’s sons and wished to bless them, the Shekhinah (Divine Presence) departed from him. Jacob thought that Manasseh and Ephraim were not the sons of a legitimate marital union, and were therefore unfit to receive a blessing. Jacob asked (v. 8): "Who are these?", that is, how were these born? (Midrash Aggadah [ed. Buber] 48:8). In another tradition, Jacob saw with the spirit of divine inspiration that Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite, would erect (statues of) calves, incite Israel to engage in idolatry, and cause five hundred thousand of Israel to fall in a single day (as is related in II Chron. 13:17). Jacob therefore asked: "Who are these?"—perhaps you improperly married the mother of these? Joseph brought before him Asenath and her ketubah (marriage contract) and said (Gen. 48:9): "They are my sons, whom God has given me here [ba-zeh, literally, with this]": "with this"—with a ketubah and proper marriage. He also showed him that, just as he was circumcised, so were his sons (Midrash ha-Gadol, Vayehi 48:8–9 [ed. Margaliot], pp. 820–21).
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“It derailed near the station of Santiago de Compostela, but we don’t know why.” ~ Alberto Nunez
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B'nei Keturah
"The contrary view {that Keturah {קְטוּרָה} was someone other than Hagar} is advocated by Rashbam, Abraham ibn Ezra, Radak, and Ramban" of blessed memri.
"[T]he opinion of the Talmudic doctors: B'nei Yishma'el and B'nei Keturah are kept distinct in the account of their complaints before Alexander the Macedonian (Sanh. 91a)."
"Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni say, When Avraham Avinu saw the great number of children he had through his second and final wife, Keturah [6 children total, after the passing of his first wife, Sarah Imeinu; [o]ne ancient source states that Hagar was already dead at this time (Yov'loth 19:13)], he knew that they would be harmful to Yitzchak and therefore, Avraham sent them off to the far eastern end of the world [with gifts].
What gifts [did he give them]? R. Jeremiah b. Abba say, 'This teaches that he imparted to them [the secrets of] the unhallowed [Martial] arts.'
B'nei Ever [Yoktan and Peleg] and B'nei Epher [Africa]
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"Asher's wife, Hadurah, is a granddaughter of Ever and a widow. By her first marriage Hadurah had a daughter Serah, whom Asher [younger brother of Gad, B'nei Zilpah] treated as affectionately as if she had been of his own flesh and blood, so that Torah commentary expounds on Serah as Asher's daughter ("Sefer ha-Yashar, Wayesheb"). According to the Book of Jubilees (xxxiv. 20), Asher's wife was named "Iyon" (probably , "dove")."
"They shall hasten like a bird from Mitzrayim and like a dove from the land of Ashur; and I will place them in their houses, says the L-rd" {Hoshea 11:11}.
"According to the midrashic Book of Jasher, Yissachar married Aridah, the younger daughter of Yobab, a son of Yoktan, eldest brother of Peleg, sons of Ever. Commentary describes the descendants of Yoktan and Peleg as "small and numerous."
One of Avraham and Keturah's six sons, Midian, synonymous with southern Jordan, was the forefather of Tzipporah, Moyshe Rabbeinu's Midianite wife.
One of Midian's five sons, Epher, is where Africa received its name according to Josephus. He also quotes Alexander Polyhistor (c. 100-40 b.c.e.) that this Epher conquered Libya and gave it his name, Africa (Antiquities 1:15:1).
Avraham say to them, 'Yitzchak is my precious son. Any nation which will enslave Yitzchak and his descendants will be punished severely in Gehenom. Therefore you should all stay far away in The East. As long as B'nei Yitzchak are enslaved among the nations, remain where you are. But when you will hear that they are living safely and securely, come and serve [with] them. In this way you will merit The Shofar of Moshiakh.'
In the days of Shlomo, some of them came to serve B'nei Yisra'el, thinking that he was Melekh ha'Moshiakh. When they saw that he wasn't, they returned to The East. They will return when Moshiakh is actually revealed, may it be speedily in our days."
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Bereisheet 25:6
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Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 91a
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"Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:50 AM
Hag Sukkos Sameakh Rabbi Kerry,
Just reviewed your commentary on MyJewishLearning[dot]com with regard to Keturah.
Where is she buried?
Conducting novice research.
Thank you, in advance.
Shal-om,
e2
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM
thank you for writing. It is not clear where Keturah is buried.
i do not think that Keturah was Hagar. I was simply citing the commentary that advances such a theory.
Chag sameach
Dr. Kerry M. Olitzky
Executive Director
Jewish Outreach Institute"