The Yashar Book (recto)

Also called the book "The Wars of the Sons of Yaakov." (So ​​called by the Ramban Najmanides 1194-1270).

A very captivating and welcoming book, which tells the whole story from the creation of the world to the days of the judges, a complement to all the things that are not explicitly written in the Torah, here they are listed in great detail ; events, names, dates and the reasons why things happened.

In the book of Yehoshua (10:13) when he tells the story of how Yehoshua stopped the sun, so that the night does not come, (which he will read with the help of the Eternal when he reaches the section in this book -Yehoshua-) It says: “And the sun stood still and the moon stood still. Until the people had avenged themselves on their enemies. As it is written in the Book Yashar and the sun stood still in the middle of the sky, and did not hasten to set for almost a whole day.” Being a great exception that the bible sends you to another source. Therefore, all commentators try to discover the great unknown of which book it refers to, who wrote it, at what time, etc...