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OHRNET — t Vayeshev — Vayeishev 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Vayeshev — Vayeishev 5784. Темы: family_education, women_modesty, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, цниют, скромность, tzniut, modesty, צניעות, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. Immediately following this law concerning the maximum height of the Chanukah lights, the Talmud interrupts its discussion of the laws of Chanukah in order to teach us that the pit into which Yosef was thrown was empty of water, but nevertheless contained snakes and scorpions. 38:1), which typically would mean “a Canaanite man.” However, rabbinic tradition teaches that Judah’s father-in-law was not actually a Canaanite, but rather the word c’naani used to describe him means “merchant.” In this essay, we explore the three Biblical Hebrew words for “merchant” — socher, rochel, and c’naani — as well as the standard Aramaic word tagar. Other Biblical Hebrew declensions of the triliteral root SAMECH-CHET-REISH from which socher derives include verbs for “engaging in trade” and nouns that refer to “merchandise.” Another meaning found in words root derived from SAMECH-CHET-REISH is “around.” This meaning is seen in the Biblical word scharchar (Prov. The Talmud similarly uses an expression that refers to what a person might tell a Nazirite (who is forbidden from drinking wine) who comes close to a vineyard: “"Go go (lech lech), turn around, turn around (sechor sechor), do not approach the vineyard" (Shabbat 13a and more). While Ibn Saruk and Ibn Janach seem to understand the “merchant” and “around” meanings of this root as two unrelated concepts expressed by the same root, Radak bridges the gap by explaining that a “merchant” typically travels “around,” so it makes sense why the same root would mean both “merchant” and “around.” Another word in Biblical Hebrew that means “merchant” is the masculine noun Rochel (and feminine noun rochelet), which appears seventeen times in the Bible, mostly in the Book of Ezekiel. ww.ohr.edu 7 *To learn about how all of this relates back to the word c’naani in the sense of “merchant,” check out the rest of this essay at the Ohr Somayach site: http://ohr.edu/this_week/whats_in_a_word/ Miketz: Say it Clear (Part 1 of 2) Throughout the stories of Joseph interpreting the dreams of the Pharaoh’s butler a

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OHRNET

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8 декабря 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, women_modesty, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary