Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 31: Getting into the Gaonim
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- [Avodah] Oops Re: Names in Aramaic and other languages October 30, 2025[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 […]
- [Avodah] Where was Dan? October 30, 2025. 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 […]
- [Avodah] Are We to Humiliate Sinners as Mitzvah Tochacha? October 29, 2025Brent 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 […]
- [Avodah] Names In Different Languages; Exceptions Don't Prove Rules October 29, 2025Centuries 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 […]
- [Avodah] 1960 de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom Tov
Siddur October 29, 2025Areyeh 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 […]
- [Avodah] Names in Aramaic and other languages October 29, 2025On 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 […]
- [Avodah] re Names in Aramaic and other languages October 29, 2025"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]
- [Avodah] Ben sorer et al October 29, 2025RJR 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 […]
- [Avodah] Where was Dan? October 29, 2025On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:21:18AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > To me, Radak's second thought (that there was a place called Dan even in > Moshe's days) is much more reasonable than the first. Why would Moshe write > down a word that was meaningless to the people of his generation? […]
- [Avodah] 1960 de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Siddur October 29, 2025I thank all those who answered my query. Interestingly, there were two 1960 editions of the de Sola Pool Edition . The First had the "son of God" translation for "bar E-lahin" in "Brikh Shmei". This caused a bit of a ruckus. Later that year, a second edition appeared in which the translation became ?a […]