[Avodah] [Areivim] abayudaya

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Jan 10, 2008 7:20 PM, Liron Kopinsky <liron.kopinsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On a similar but sad note, there is a Gemarrah in Brachot which says that
> one cannot name a shul "Beth Am" because it connotes a place of communal
> gathering rather than avodat Hashem, but googling "beth Am" gives the
> following: " Results 1 - 10 of about 944,000 for beth Am. ( 0.21 seconds)
> " What is sad is not that that many congregations voted to name their shuls
> by a name explicitely assur in the Gemarrah, but that none of their Rabbi's
> actually learned (or cared about) the first tractate of Shas to know it's
> forbidden at all.
> ~Liron
>

How can we call a month Tammuz when it is the name of a Baylonian Deity -
sholudn't "sheim elohim acheirim lo sazkiru" make that assur mid'orraisso?


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