[Avodah] Loazim and Shmitchiks

[Zev Sero]

dbmin9 at aol.com wrote:
>  However, many have thought that 
> the word must be an abbreviation, and a fitting one has been found: 
> "leshon ovdei avoda zara,"

I've never heard of that one, and it has the disadvantage of needing
an extra letter.   I've always heard it as "leshon am zar" or "..am zu".


> although I'm not sure how this will work for 
> the Tosaphists who didn't consider Christi ans to be ovdei avoda zara.

They didn't?  Most if not all of them certainly did.

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