Keresh
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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. "