[Avodah] lion king

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue May 3 13:15:44 PDT 2016


On 05/03/2016 12:42 PM, Jonathan Traum via Avodah wrote:
> On 04/25/2016 09:22 PM, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:

>> >But all this is about using lions as a symbol of royalty.  RET's
>> >question was not about that but about the idea that lions themselves
>> >are kings, and that seems to come from a Xian source.

> The wikipedia article references Hagigah 13b, which says "דאמר מר מלך
> שבחיות ארי" or in the Soncino translation: "For a Master said: The
> king of the wild animals is the lion..."

Yes, it does now.  As the result of this discussion.

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Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.



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