<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; "><br>Actually Av is a Hebrification of the Babylonian Abu which in turn was<br>slurred from the Sumerian (Ur III) month "Aru" - lion, the mazal of<br>the month.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">Interesting that it comes from lion. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">The gemara says we should be as powerful as a lion to serve God. Animal psychologists have taught that all the animals in the cat family </span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">(tigers, cheetahs, leopards, pumas, jaguars, etc.) cannot get along well with each other. Only the lion can control its inclinations and get along with other lions. They won't</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">leave each other as do the other cats. So the Torah teaches that the real power is controlling one's yetzer hara. </span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px;">ri</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>