Epilepsy in the Talmud

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June 25 2001
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Publication: Derech Hateva Volume 5

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Derech HaTeva is a publication of the undergraduate students of Stern College for Women.
Editors in Chief: Michal Gold, Chana Rosenblatt

The Midianite priest and prophet Balaam called himself "fallen down (nophel) with open eyes." The term "fallen down" is the designation of epileptic, and thus Balaam might have been epileptic.

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