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On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:31:47PM +0000, Joseph Kaplan via Avodah wrote: > It always seemed to be that the witness was not being literal because what > is the likelihood that he actually saw all the things he said he saw which > none of his contemporaries had heard of... I thought that […]
I think we are conflating two subjects: Halachic vs legal names, and the original question of whether a name should get translated, eg in targum. The first category touches home: I bought my dirah before having Israeli citizenship, so the name on the paperwork is that on my passport: Mitchel Samuel Berger. To make ownership […]
[Actually, I lost track of which email RnIE was replying to, and I mangled her original emails. This provides some kind of meaningful context. -micha] On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:57:19PM +0200, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote: >> Moshe/Moses, Carlos/Charles, and Ya'akov/Yankef are all seen as variants of >> the same name, *not* as […]
. R' Micha Berger asked: > There are many place names in the Chumash that we today can't > locate. > Why do you consider his contemporary generation a more important > audience than later ones? If you aren't bothered by the Chumash > referring to places we can't identify, why are you bothered by […]
Brent Kaufman wrote: The commandment is to admonish, not to ensure the sinners repent. It seems this is inaccurate. We are commanded to continue to admonish until they accept or are readying to strike the admonisher. [RaMBaM DeOs 6:7] One who notices a co-religionist who has sinned or has taken an unhealthy life-path, has a […]
Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org would write on Tue Oct 28 23:05:26 2025: > > In my learning of On[q]elos, I have noticed that it is not unusual > for a place to have one name in Hebrew, and a seemingly unrelated > name in Aramaic.... > > I began to wonder […]
Areyeh Frimer asks: ?Is there someone on this list who has access to the de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom Tov Siddur. I am interested in verifying whether R. De Sola Pool indeed translated "Bar E-lohin" in Berikh Shmei as "Angel" or "Son of God". I vaguely remember he did the […]
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:29?AM Akiva Miller via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > . > The world accepts the idea of different names for places, but people don't > seem to accept anything beyond minor pronunciation adaptations. > Moshe/Moses, Carlos/Charles, and Ya'akov/Yankef are all seen as variants of > the same […]
"At this keyboard: Hebrew: Akiva, English: Kenneth" Akiva, this might come as a surprise?to you, but Akiva is not Hebrew, but Aramaic for Yaakov. So much nicer than Yankel, though.Consider yourself lucky. Cheers Martin Brody 310-562-9789 Mobile [data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=3D]
RJR asks: ?Has anyone heard a good explanation as to why the gemara sanhedrin does not say that the argument is resolved by the fact that there is testimony that each case (ben sorer, bayit hamenuga) did actually occur?? It always seemed to be that the witness was not being literal because what is the […]