The Sambatyon River

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Moses said to Him: “They heard that You, the Lord, are in the midst of this people…If You kill this people as one man [the nations who have heard your fame will say: Because of the inability of the Lord to bring this nation to the land which He swore to give them, he killed them in the desert]” (Numbers 14:14–16) – [Do not destroy them] so the nations of the world will not say that the gods of Canaan are stronger than the gods of Egypt. The gods of Egypt are false, but those of Canaan are substantial. “They will say regarding the inhabitants of the land” (Numbers 14:14)…

Bamidbar Rabbah 16:25

Rebbi Eleazar and Rebbi Jehudah. One said, they were exiles only when they were uncircumcised. The other said, they were exiled only when they were bastards. He who says uncircumcised, for circumcision and commandments. But he who says bastards, from their fathers. Rebbi Joḥanan said, Israel was exiled only after they formed 24 heretical sects. What is the reason? Son of man, I am sending you to the Children of Israel, to rebellious peoples who rebelled against Me. It is not written “to a rebellious people” but to rebellious peoples who rebelled against Me…

Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 10:5:5

“She called his name Joseph, saying: May the Lord add another son for me” (Genesis 30:24).
“She called his name Joseph, saying: May the Lord add another son for me” – another in terms of exile. Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Simon said: The tribes of Judah and Benjamin were not exiled to the place that the ten tribes were exiled. The ten tribes were exiled beyond the Sambatyon River. The tribes of Judah and Benjamin are scattered in all the lands.
“Another [aher] son” – other [aher] in terms of division…

Bereshit Rabbah 73:6

The wicked [governor] Tinneus Rufus asked Rabbi Akiva: ‘How is this day [Shabbat] different from the other days of the week?’ He said to him: ‘How is this man [Tinneus Rufus] different from other men?’ He said: ‘What did I say to you and what did you say to me?’ He said to him: ‘You said to me: How is this day different from the other days of the week, meaning, in what way is Shabbat different from every day? And I said to you: How is this man different other men, meaning, in what way is Tinneus Rufus different from other men?’ He said to him: ‘It is because the king wished to honor me…

Bereshit Rabbah 11:5

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