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<DIV>In a message dated 12/9/2008 12:30:14 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sba@sba2.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From:
"Prof. Levine <BR>Does not the fact that the Torah makes no mention of Yaakov
learning <BR>in yeshiva telling? If these years were more important, then I
would <BR>have expected the Torah to mention Yaakov's learning explicitly. I
am <BR>sure there is an answer, but I do not know it.<BR>>><BR><BR>Is
there ANY place in Tenach where it mentions learning in a
Yeshiva?<BR><BR>SBA<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>>>>><BR>Well this is one place that, when I read it,
I understood it to be a yeshiva (with a dorm and a kitchen!): Melachim Bais,
4:38-44. It's the story of the bnai hanavi'im who were sitting before
Elisha (i.e., his talmidim) and they had nothing to eat, and then one of them
went and got some mushrooms from the field and made soup but it turned out the
mushrooms were poisonous so they couldn't eat the soup, and then Elisha put some
flour in the soup and miraculously made it OK to eat. And then on the same
page is the story of the man who came and brought twenty loaves of bread, which
Elisha told his servant to serve to a hundred men, and miraculously it was
enough to feed a hundred men. What hundred men could that be? Must
be the talmidim in his yeshiva.</DIV>
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