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Under torah a woman does not have standing to bring a legal claim against her husband, nor can she initiate a divorce. It seems to follow, then, that she could not initiate the sotah ritual against a straying husband. (Note that if there has been adultery, then this means the other man's wife, if he is married, has no recourse against him.)
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Midian's army was not stronger than the Lord.
When Jonathan and his armor-bearer slew twenty Philistines (1 Sam 14:14), there occurred a "great trembling" or quaking of the earth (1 Sam 14:15), which preceded "very great confusion" wherein the Philistines started killing each other (1 Sam 14:20), and thus the rout that followed (1 Sam 14:22-23).
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Could not the Lord have "instigated" the people to spy the land through indirect means, and therefore solve the conundrum?
For example, Satan incited David to number the Israelites in a census (1 Chr 21:1), but in 2 Sam 24:1 it is the Lord who is the subject of the Hebrew verb סוּת, and therefore in the immediate grammatical context it was the Lord who had ...
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What Moses did wrong is exactly what the Hebrews did wrong when they sent the spies and they believed the pesimistic report given by the spies. In both cases, G-d told them that they could do something that in any other circumstance would be considered a miracle . . . and they didn't believe Him.
Consider these facts. At Exodus 6:8 G-d promises to the ...
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