[Avodah] Hebrew and Aramaic

Russell Levy russlevy at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 19:41:58 PDT 2007


On 6/3/07, Moshe Yehuda Gluck <mgluck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Going off on a tangent (but still keeping to the subject line) I recently
> saw someone write something about love, that "Ahavah" comes from the root
> "Hav," give, so that giving leads to loving, etc., etc. (I think this is
> well known - I've certainly heard it before, though I can't recall a
> Mekor.)
> Now, isn't "Ahavah" Lashon Kodesh, and "Hav" Aramaic, sort of shooting
> holes
> through this Vort?


Here too we have the word 'hav' in  Tanach --  See Shoftim 1:15 (it doesn't
seem  the same as 'hava nitchakma' or  'hava nivneh lanu', which may be
something else, I'm not sure): "hava li bracha" -- Give me a bracha
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