"Davka" is one of those Hebrew/Yiddish words which have no real translationThank you, Yigal. Well, I can agree with the part of this which you explain, that the purpose of the Torah and the whole HB is to connect us to the Holy One, and not to teach us history. But that does not imply that it is historically inaccurate.
into any other language. It means something like"on purpose", or "just so"
or, "just to spite". So what Shoshanna meant was "law it contains is
PRECISELY for the purpose of connecting ourselves with that holiness (and
not, as claimed, the opposite)".
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