'Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?' Calls out the returned exiles for prioritizing their own comfortable homes over rebuilding the temple. Does material priority-setting like this deserve the same pro...
Legal & Ethical<b>Is it [an appropriate] time for you?</b> This is an interrogative expression; therefore the “heh” is vowelized with a “pattah.”<br><br><b>ceiled</b> covered with boards of cedar, as in (I Kings 6:9): “And he covered the house” and (ibid. 7:3) “And...
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