{"id":22738,"date":"2010-08-24T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T22:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T23:36:09","slug":"torah-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22738","title":{"rendered":"Torah Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading the Michael Lewis book, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine\/dp\/0393072231\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1\">The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His opening protagonist is Steve Eisman, who started to study Talmud as a teenager to find mistakes in it. When he made his billions, he founded a charity to help ex-Hasidic Jews adjust to secular life.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek emails: Do you ever give thought to such things, or is the benefit to you in social terms sufficient to sweep such things under the rug?<\/p>\n<p>Things I always wanted to ask in cheder, but never did:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The following are pairs of verses which contradict one another in<br \/>\nthe books of the Jews:<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:4(7 HUNDRED horsemen)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:4(7 THOUSAND horsemen)<\/p>\n<p>1 Chronicles 21:12(THREE years famine)<br \/>\n2 Samuel 24:13(SEVEN years famine)<\/p>\n<p>Deuteronomy 2:19 &#038; Deuteronomy 2:37(Moses deprived land of<br \/>\nAmmon)<br \/>\nJoshua 13:24-25(Moses gives land of Ammon as inheritance)<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 24:9(800,000+500,000)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 21:5(1,100,000+470,000)<\/p>\n<p>2 Chronicles 36:9(EIGHT years, three months +10 days)<br \/>\n2 Kings 24:8 (EIGHTEEN years, three months)<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 10:18(700, 40,000 HORSEMEN)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 19:18(7000, 40,000 FOOTMEN)<\/p>\n<p>1 Kings 7:26(TWO thousand baths)<br \/>\n2 Chronicles 4:5(THREE thousand baths)<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 6:23(Michal had NO children)<br \/>\n2 Samuel 21:8(Michal had FIVE sons)<\/p>\n<p>Genesis6:3(mankind shall not live past 120 years)<br \/>\nGenesis 11:10-32 (500,438,433,464,&#8230;etc.)<\/p>\n<p>2 Chronicles 9:25(4,000 stalls)<br \/>\n1 Kings 4:26(40,000 stalls)<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 40:28 (God does not FAINT nor WEARY)<br \/>\nExodus 31:17 (God RESTED, and was REFRESHED.)<\/p>\n<p>Genisis 1: (God creates Plants, THEN animals, THEN man and<br \/>\nwoman.)<br \/>\nGenesis 2: (God creates man, THEN plants, THEN animals, THEN<br \/>\nwoman)<\/p>\n<p>Ezekiel 45 and Ezekiel 46 (DOCTRINES of offerings and sacrifices)<br \/>\nNumbers 28 and Numbers 29 (CONTRADICTORY DOCTRINES of<br \/>\nofferings and sacrifices)<\/p>\n<p>1 Chronicles 8:29-38 (One list of NAMES)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 9:35-44 (A CONTRADICTORY list of NAMES)<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 5 and 2 Samuel 6 (David brought the ark AFTER fighting<br \/>\nthe Philistines)<br \/>\n1 Samuel 13 and 1 Samuel 14 (David brought the ark BEFORE<br \/>\nfighting the Philistines)<\/p>\n<p>Genesis 6:19-20 (Noah was to bring onto the ark &#8220;of EVERY living<br \/>\nthing of all flesh, TWO of EVERY sort shalt thou bring into the ark,<br \/>\nto keep them alive &#8230;.male and female&#8230;.of fowls&#8230;.of cattle&#8230;.of every<br \/>\ncreeping thing of the earth&#8230;&#8221;).<br \/>\nGenesis 7:2-3 (Noah was to bring onto the ark &#8220;Of every CLEAN<br \/>\nbeast thou shalt take to thee by SEVENS, the male and his female:<br \/>\nand of beasts that are NOT CLEAN by TWO, the male and his<br \/>\nfemale. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the<br \/>\nfemale&#8230;&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:1 (&#8220;David took METHEGAMMAH out of the hand of<br \/>\nthe Philistines&#8221;).<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:1 (&#8220;David&#8230;took GATH and her towns out of the<br \/>\nhand of the Philistines&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:8 (&#8220;And from BETAH, and from BEROTHAI, cities of<br \/>\nHadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass&#8221;).<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:8 (&#8220;Likewise from TIBHATH, and from CHUN,<br \/>\ncities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:10 (&#8220;Then Toi sent JORAM his son unto king David&#8221;)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:10 (&#8220;He sent HADORAM his son to king David&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:12 (&#8220;Of SYRIA, and of Moab, and of the children of<br \/>\nAmmon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek&#8221;).<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:11 (&#8220;from EDOM, and from Moab, and from the<br \/>\nchildren of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:13 (&#8220;And David gat him a name when he returned from<br \/>\nsmiting of the SYRIANS in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand<br \/>\nmen&#8221;).<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:13 (&#8220;And he put garrisons in EDOM; and all the<br \/>\nEDOMITES became David&#8217;s servants&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>2 Samuel 8:17 (&#8220;and SERAIAH was the scribe&#8221;)<br \/>\n1 Chronicles 18:16 (&#8220;and SHAVSHA was scribe&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>1 Kings 15:33-16:6 (&#8220;In the THIRD year of Asa king of Judah began<br \/>\nBaasha the son Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, TWENTY<br \/>\nFOUR years&#8230;.. So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was BURIED<br \/>\nin Tirzah&#8221;). 3+24=27.<br \/>\n2 Chronicles 16:1 (&#8220;In the THIRTY SIXTH year of the reign of Asa,<br \/>\nBaasha king of Israel came up against Judah&#8221;). But he died in the<br \/>\ntwenty seventh year!. Was he resurected?. So how did he invade<br \/>\nJudah 10 years after his death?.<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:6 (2812)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:11 (2818)<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:8 (945)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:13 (845)<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:12 (1222)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:17 (2322)<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:15 (454)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:20 (655)<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:19 (223)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:22 (328)<\/p>\n<p>Ezra 2:28 (223)<br \/>\nNehemiah 7:32 (123)<\/p>\n<p>Gingernova responds on Youtube to my <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22724\">latest Torah Talk with Rabbi Rabbs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I have questions.<\/p>\n<p>1. Where can I look up the &#8220;Rombom&#8221; and what you are talking about?<\/p>\n<p>2. What about the foreshadowing of the potential sacrifice of Isaac (and the lamb sacrificed)&#8230;Christians believe he is the lamb of God who was sacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>3. Could it be possible that God could come down and inhabit a human body? Or is it impossible? <\/p>\n<p>1. Okay so why do you (Judism) not tell us the code?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why do you not have time for that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading the Michael Lewis book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. His opening protagonist is Steve Eisman, who started to study Talmud as a teenager to find mistakes in it. 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