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OHRNET — t Toldot — Toldos 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Toldot — Toldos 5784. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Synonyms in the Hebrew Language by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein True Love (Part 2 of 2) I n Part 1 of this essay we looked the Hebrew word ahavah and its various forms, offering various etymological theories as to the core root of that word and its underlying conceptual idea. However, there is once instance of a verb form of this root in which the vowel under the REISH is not a patach: King David composed a hymn that celebrated Hashem saving him from his enemies, which begins with the words: "I will <verb erchamcha> You — O Hashem — strengthen me!" (Ps. Instead, the commentators (including Ibn Janach, Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Ibn Ramoch, and others) all explain that in this case, the verb in question means “I [King David] will love You [Hashem].” Although this is the only case of the term r’chim in the Bible that clearly refers to “love,” the Targumim are replete with such usages. Although the concepts of “love” and “pity/mercy” are not quite the same idea, Rabbi Yitzchak Avineri (1900- 1977) writes that it is not too astonishing that both meanings could be expressed by the same root — REISH- CHET-MEM — because love is the root of mercy in the sense that one only has mercy on those whom he loves. 13:2) bridges the gaps between the various meanings of this triliteral root by defining its primary semantic denotation as "motherliness protection." He uses this to explain the connection between rechem (the place in her body, wherein a mother protects her unborn fetus) and ww.ohr.edu 3 rachamim (i.e., the dominant trait of a protective mother), which also fits with our conception of "love." We may add that the bird racham (often understood to mean "carrion-vulture" or "osprey") relates to these ideas because it serves as the harbinger of “rain,” which is closely related to mercy (see Chullin 63a), and because this mother bird is understood to act especially merciful to its young (see Peirush HaRokach and Moshav Zekanim to Lev. For the continuation of this essay that goes on to explore the Hebrew words chibah and agav, as well as the Greek word agape, visit us

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OHRNET

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17 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary