<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#281D13"><br>R' Marty wrote: I always thought of the Avnet as a belt.</font></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#282828">Actually, the word avnet in Hebrew means belt or girdle.<br>This was the first time that I realized the word gartel is very <br>similar to girdle.<br>Therefore, it could be said that the AVnet is the father of the gartel.</font></blockquote><br></div><div> ri</div></body></html>