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The '''Keresh''' is the enormous [[deer]] of ''Be-Ila'i'', and it has but one horn.<ref>See [http://halakhah.com/pdf/kodoshim/Chullin.pdf Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), Seder ''Kodashim'', Tractate ''Chullin'', Folio 59b (''Chullin'' 59b)]. ''scroll down to page'' 192. | The '''Keresh''' is the enormous [[deer]] of ''Be-Ila'i'', and it has but one horn.<ref>See [http://halakhah.com/pdf/kodoshim/Chullin.pdf Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), Seder ''Kodashim'', Tractate ''Chullin'', Folio 59b (''Chullin'' 59b)]. ''scroll down to page'' 192. | ||
</ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is | </ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is | ||
| − | sixteen [[cubit]]s long.<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is a forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], and according to [[Yehudi L. B. Lewysohn|Lewysohn]]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [[Marcus Jastrow|Jastrow]] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''. —" '''טגרוס ''' | + | sixteen [[cubit]]s long.<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is a forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], and according to [[Yehudi L. B. Lewysohn|Lewysohn]]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [[Marcus Jastrow|Jastrow]] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''. —" '''טגרוס ''': <small>m</small> (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) ''tiger''. "</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:37, October 31, 2014
The Keresh is the enormous deer of Be-Ila'i, and it has but one horn.[1] The hide of the deer of Be-Ila'i is sixteen cubits long.[2] Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify this creature as the legendary Taḥash.[3] It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. Be-Ila'i is a forest of this name according to Rashi, and according to Lewysohn[4]. According to Jastrow it refers to the mountains of interior Asia.[5]
References
- ↑ See Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), Seder Kodashim, Tractate Chullin, Folio 59b (Chullin 59b). scroll down to page 192.
- ↑ 16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).
- ↑ Babylonian Talmud, Seder Mo'ed, Tractate Shabbath, Folio 28a PARTb (Shab. 28ab) —halakhah.com.
"Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast." - ↑ Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org
- ↑ Jastrow, Marcus (1926) Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature p. 520, column a, top. טגרס טגרוס —tyndalearchive.com —click on letter ט Tet, at top of page image select next page until page 520 appears. —" טגרוס : m (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) tiger. "