Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.
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Patrick Fowler
August 28, 2024
Toda raba 10/10 Baruch Ha Shem Reply
Rita Forbes
Clinton
August 28, 2024
Good🌻Morning,
Have a blessed day. 10/10. Thank you.
Baruch HaShem, 🕊💜
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Raad Jawad
Auckland
August 27, 2024
10/10 Reply
Deborah Greene
JHB SA
August 27, 2024
Pity me only 9/10 Toda Raba Rabbi
Shalu Shalom Yerushalayim 🇮🇱🔯
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Jan S. Heutink
Hoogvliet
July 1, 2024
10/10.
Thanks for the quizes. Is improves my knowledge of TheNach.
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Yulanda
Toronto ON
June 27, 2024
8/10 I believe that the answer to question #2 should be true! The question said true or false only men can be prophets! I answered true! In my humble opinion, women are not called prophets! But are called prophetess! and after the answer was revealed!! it says read who were the seven prophetesses! So can someone please clarify for me, why my answer was incorrect! Thank you Rabbi Posner for another wonderful quizzes! Shalom. Reply
John
London
June 28, 2024
in response to Yulanda:
Yulanda, your answer was incorrect to the question the Rabbi meant to ask, but correct to the question he did ask. It is also in Biblical Hebrew that a lady who prophesies is never called a prophet, but only always, if anything at all (Hannah was not given a prophetic title at all), a prophetess. Reply
Angela Wilder
Brooklyn
June 24, 2024
9/10 ,thank you Rabbi
Foru quizzes .😃
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Chris Chemuku
Kitale
June 24, 2024
9/10 Reply
Jack
Harpers Ferry
June 23, 2024
8 - I didn't know the shortest book in the Tanach, but then I haven't read all of the books yet, so I likely wouldn't. Also didn't know that Ezekiel wasn't a native Israelite. At least that seems to be the implication of having him prophesy only in Aramaic. That would make him a prophet to some other group, yeah? Reply
John
London
June 25, 2024
in response to Jack:
No, Jack, Ezekiel prophesied in Hebrew (and his being the son of Buzi does not mean that his father was a drunk). It was Daniel, who prophesied and wrote n Aramaic for the Babylonians and in Hebrew for the Jews. Ezra the priest also wrote part of his book in Aramaic, using Hebrew orth9ography. Reply
Robert Negron
South Florida
June 22, 2024
9/10, not bad! Love these quizzes!!! Reply
SULE OBOZUWA
Lagos, Nigeria
June 21, 2024
8/10 a very good score! But question 2 is quite confusing as only males are called Prophets and females called Prophetess. I did fail the number 2 and 5 (Did not know Daniel prophesied in Aramaic). Keep up the good job you are doing. Shalom Reply
John
London
June 21, 2024
in response to SULE OBOZUWA:
And that is so in the original Hebrew too. It's not that question 2, as framed, is confusing, it's clear enough. It's that the official answer is correct only for the wording that the setter should have used ("True or False: Only men can prophesy (under the inspiration of G-d)"), not the wording he actually used. Reply
Yulanda
Toronto ON
June 27, 2024
in response to SULE OBOZUWA:
I also got the same 2 questions incorrect! question #2 and question #5. Reply
Bolle
Belgium
June 21, 2024
Thanks for the quizzes its a moment we enjoying with the family,,,,very precious Reply
INGA Y JONES-SULLIVAN
JOINT BASE MDL
June 20, 2024
I missed the question regarding Daniel. I thought he wasn't a prophet because he was 2nd in command to a foreign king. I thought prophets answered only to G-d! Reply
John
London
June 21, 2024
in response to INGA Y JONES-SULLIVAN:
Prophets do/did indeed answer only to G-d for the content and delivery of their prophecies and for things that G-d commanded them directly to do. But for other things they answered to the party under whose remit these other things came, e.g., David to Saul, and Abraham and Isaac to Abimelech for their conduct, and Joseph to Pharaoh.for the way he governed. Reply
Patrick
United States
June 20, 2024
10/10 Baruch Ha Shem Reply
John
London
June 20, 2024
1. Aren't the Elijah who is to come (as prophesied by Malachi) and Mosiach greater prophets than Moses?
2. Doesn't Biblical Hebrew distingush sharply between prophets and prophetesses? Women prophesy, but they cannot be prophets (and Hannah, the first person to prophesy a Divinely appointed King isn't even called a prophetess).
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Yvonne
Rockledge
June 20, 2024
10/10 ! The books of the prophets are my favorites books. The vision and works of the prophets inspire me. My favorite prophet is Elijah who, while running for his life from Jezebel, asked the Lord that he might die. It is a poignant paradox. In his great works he reveals that G-d made him human just like the rest of us.
I hope these quizzes never end.
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Pauline
England
June 20, 2024
Was pleased to get 8/10 as this wasn’t a strong topic for me. Reply
Rudolf
June 20, 2024
The prophet quiz's last question seems to warrant some clarification: if the word "longest" refers to the number of chapters, Isaiah clearly wins; Isaiah contains 66 chapters, which is more than Jeremiah's 52 chapters. But the number of words, and characters, in Jeremiah seems to be larger, which would turn Jeremiah into the longest prophetic work (if considering the overall text size)... Reply
Dave
UK
June 20, 2024
Enjoyed that Reply
8/10 Incredible!