[Avodah] hayom yom rishon....

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/14/2011 1:07 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 14/08/2011 3:10 AM, Harvey Benton wrote:
>> i was told that the reason we are allowed to use the babylonian names of
>> our months (although) they (10 of 12) were names of babylonian gods
>
> AFAIK only one is the name of a god, and it's one that's named in Tanach
> so it's OK. In any case, I suspect that the god was named after the
> month (or both after the same other thing) rather than the other way
> around.

Definitely not.  The name actually means son of the sun in Sumerian.

>> is that we are allowed to use the names of gods/months, that appear in
>> the gemmara??
>
> That's not a reason; who gave the amora'im the right to do so in the first
> place? We can use names used in Tanach, but where did you hear that this
> extended to the gemara? Rather, the fact that Chazal used the names proves
> that there must be a heter.

Which doesn't help us much if we don't know what that heter is.

Lisa