<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zev Sero</b> <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
R Wolberg wrote:<br>> The month of Cheshvan is also referred to as "Mar-Cheshvan." Mar means<br>> "bitter" — because there are no holidays this month, we allude to it as<br>> 'bitter'.<br><br>
Unfortunately, that piece of folk etymology has about as much truth as<br>most such. Merach-Shevan simply means "eighth month"; the mem and resh<br>are an integral part of the name, not a prefix, and there is no such
<br>thing as plain "Cheshvan".<br><br>--<br>Zev Sero </blockquote></div><br>Zev is correct for support see a fine Article by Ari Zivotovsky:<br><br><a href="http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5761fall/LEGALEAS.PDF" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font size="-1"><span>www.ou.org/publications/ja/5761fall/LEGALEAS.PDF</span></font> </a><br><br>I have also speculated that MAYBE the term was at one time<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">YerachShemon and that the Mem got transposed somehow and the Vov/yud was flipped and transposed
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