[Avodah] KELEV HAYAM - SEA DOG:

[T613K at aol.com]

"Rosh Hashanah--Its Significance, Laws, and Prayers: A  Presentation"
The ArtScroll book introduction has this paragraph, defining the Mishna's  
"sea dog" (kelev hayam) as a walrus. (A recent speaker I heard said  the 
kelev hayam is a seal.)  Nice vort about how the creature lives in the  sea but 
runs to dry land when threatened, where you run to defines you, so too  
Jews, though estranged from G-d, run to Him when threatened -- something like  
that.  Is the walrus really a sea creature?  It can sleep in  water, resting 
its head on an ice floe or even sleeping underwater (but must  surface 
every five minutes to breathe).  It usually sleeps on  land.   Does it have 
enemies in the water?  Does it run  to land when chased?  My husband says if it 
sleeps on land it is NOT a sea  creature and the nice vort loses its edge -- 
unless the kelev hayam is not a  walrus?  Has anything been written 
somewhere about what creature the  kelev hayam might be?

 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=u-bTGGSsdrIC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=sea+dog+t
almud&source=bl&ots=rKeITrrgzH&sig=21hgYf_UA4NoXsi9Pb_zVqn2bTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei
=yjFUT6zGEovBtge99NWzDQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sea%20dog%20talmud&f=fal
se_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=u-bTGGSsdrIC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=sea+dog+talmud&source=bl&ots=rKeITrrgzH&sig=21hgYf_UA4NoXsi9Pb_zVqn2bTM&hl=en&sa=
X&ei=yjFUT6zGEovBtge99NWzDQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sea%20dog%20talmud&f
=false) 

 
or


 
_http://tinyurl.com/847eeb8_ (http://tinyurl.com/847eeb8) 

 

--Toby Katz
=============
Romney -- good values, good family, good  hair


------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 

 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20120304/8ef92816/attachment-0001.htm>