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size=2><BR><BR><BR>From: SBA [mailto:sba@sba2.com] <BR>Sent: Friday, 16 May
2008 1:08 AM<BR>To: 'areivim@lists.aishdas.org'<BR>Cc: avodah<BR>Subject: Male
and Female Gemstones !?<BR><BR>An interesting Rabenu Bachaye that I came upon
last week - on Kapos<BR>"Temarim"....<BR><BR><BR><BR>....Ki bechol haminim
kulom - gam betzemochim gam bedomem - motzinu bederech<BR>hateva zochor
unekeva". (V2, p 72)<BR><BR>The Shaarei Aharon explains 'bedomem' - 'kavonoso
be'avonim yekoros' =<BR>gemstones.<BR><BR>This is new to me. Anyone know more
about this?<BR><BR>SBA <BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>"For several hundred years it was believed that a Diamond had gender and
was labeled male or female based on its color, dark being male and light being
female. There was even a belief in the mid-fifteen hundreds held by Francois
Ruet that a male and female Diamond together could produce offspring."</DIV>
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<DIV>I found that on a website devoted to birthstones. Unfortunately it
had no further information on this point.<BR></DIV>
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