[Avodah] Yir'ass HaShem

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From: "Zvi Lampel" _hlampel at thejnet.com_ (mailto:hlampel at thejnet.com) 

>>Rav  Avigdor Miller Zt"l advocated that "yir'eh," from the same shoresh 
that denotes  "seeing," means "awareness," so that "yir'ass HaShem" is the 
intense awareness  of Hashem's presence. This works very well, and would influence 
one to fulfill  what he knows he ought to do, yet perhaps be more utilized when 
someone is  tempted to do something he wouldn't if he truly felt that "the 
King is  watching."<<

Zvi Lampel


 
>>>>
Very nice, except that these are two different roots, not the same  root.  
The shoresh of yirah-fear is yud-resh-aleph and the shoresh of  yirah-seeing is 
resh-aleph-heh.  The only way you could say they have the  "same" root is if 
you believe in the idea that there is an essential bi-literal  root embedded in 
every three-letter shoresh, and thus say that the real  root of both words is 
resh-aleph.  But I don't think anyone accepts that  way of viewing shorashim 
anymore.




--Toby  Katz
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