<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In thinking of one of the Hebrew words for moon <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>LEVANAH</b></font></div><div>something occurred to me in looking at the spelling.</div><div>The first two letters (lamed, beis) spell heart.</div><div>the last two letters (nun, hay) can spell "noha" which can mean</div><div>lamentation or strong yearning.</div><div><br></div><div>We are a lunar oriented religion (calendar, rosh chodesh, very first mitzvah to the Jews "observance of the New Moon", etc.).</div><div>Therefore the connection I see is that just as the moon waxes and wanes, so, too, our hearts also wax and wane. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Translation results for: NO'HA</b></font></div><div><div class="row"><div class="colspan_1_2"><div id="result_ph"><div class="box584_m"><div style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><div id="_ctl0_mainContent_milonResultControl_ResultContainer"><div id="translate_result0" class="translate_box"><div class="title_ph"><div class="word_ph translation_he heWords" style="vertical-align: text-top; "><br></div><div class="translation translation_en" style="vertical-align: text-top; "><div class="default_trans" style="display: block; ">(literary, rare) strong yearning, longing; following</div></div><div class="clear"></div></div><div class="goodies_ph"><div class="goody"><a class="sound_goody button speaker imageSoundUnclicked" title="לחצו להשמעת המילה בהגייה מדויקת" style="cursor: pointer; "></a></div><div class="goody" title="Click to translate the words appearing in the translation"><a class="clickable_button button reverseTrasnlationUnClicked"></a></div><div class="clear"></div></div><div class="extra_data"></div></div><div class="result_seperator"></div><div id="translate_result1" class="translate_box"><div class="title_ph"><div class="word_ph translation_he heWords" style="vertical-align: text-top; "><br></div><div class="translation translation_en" style="vertical-align: text-top; "><div class="default_trans" style="display: block; ">(flowery) lamentation, bemoaning, wailing</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>