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<DIV>In a message dated 1/6/2010 4:50:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
hmaryles@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">>>The word Zaken can be used to mean
beard or elder. An elder is one who has gained wisdom via his many years of
life experience A clean shaven face implies youth and thereby
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<DIV>You are quite right. Just one quibble: an elder is a zaken
while a beard is a zakan. However you are correct that they are the same
root word and that the Hebrew language itself equates a beard with being older
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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