[Avodah] Sign of Strength

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:24:37PM -0400, cantorwolberg at cox.net wrote:
> : Only then will Jerusalem will be what its name means ??? Yeru, Aramaic
> : for city, of Shalom, Peace, and also, (since Shalom is one of God's Names)
> : [city of] God.
> 
> It's a stretch, IMHO, to associate "Yeru" with "Ur" (as in: Ur Kasdim).
> 
> Two years ago <http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2006/05/yom-yerushalayim.shtml>
> I suggested the name of the city was a portmanteau of Avraham's words,
> asher yei'amer hayom "behar Hashem YEIRA'EH" with Malkizedeq melekh
> SHALEIM's message of shalom and sheleimus.

I don't recall you saying it, but isn't that what everyone says?
Seriously, I recall learning that in primary school, and it never
occurred to me that it wasn't common and uncontroversial knowledge.
Isn't that why it's spelled with no yud before the mem?

Though it would be the first half of the pasuk you quote, "And Avraham
named the place 'Hashem Yir'eh'", that matters, not the reason why he
did so.  And what matters about Malkitzedek is not his message of peace
but the name the city had in his day.

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