[Avodah] NASA, Dead-Sea Scrolls and G-D's holy name

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Sep 4 23:12:50 PDT 2008


T613K at aol.com wrote:

> Greek letters were used in the BHMK?  Where, what, why?

The three boxes in which the money from machtzit hashekel was taken
for trumat halishka were marked alpha, beta, and gamma, so as to give
Yefet a place in "the tents of Shem".

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Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
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