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I Shmuel 5: Hemorrhoids of the Lost Ark
Chapters five and six are odd chapters. The main character is not a person. It is the Ark of the Covenant. The Philistines capture the Ark and place it in the temple of Dagon. Maybe this is the same temple that Shimshon destroyed. Each morning, the great statue of Dagon (a fish god- from the Hebrew word dag, or a god of the harvest from the Hebrew word- dagan) is damaged. The Philistines then move the Ark to another town where everyone is inflicted with hemorrhoids or rats or both. The text itself has a written and read mix. The written word is afelim and the read word is trachim. Rashi…
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