[Avodah] hayom yom rishon....

[Zev Sero]

On 14/08/2011 11:44 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> 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.

Which part means what?


>>> 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.

We don't need to know the heter in order to do the same as they did.
But in fact, since only one of the months is the name of a god, and
that name appears in Tanach, they didn't need a heter and nor do we.
But my point here was precisely that "it appears in the gemara" can't
itself be a heter.

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