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A Sin of Festering Over the Details of Experience


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In the previous parashah, God sent us to dispose ourselves (ארץ)1 to what oppressively draws in from experience (Canaan).2 Failing that, God encouraged us to repetitively strive (TsiTsiT)3 to draw in the basic facts encountered in experience (כנפי בגדים).4,5 As the mental faculty that festers over things in experience (Qorahh),6 a behavior of narrowing in upon things so as to gain clarity (Yitshar)7, a behavior of intently maintaining a visual fix on a scene (Q’hat),8 a behavior of clinging to a scene so as to generate an awareness of many startling things (Levi)9 – Qorahh’s motives were noble. Along with an act of repetitively going over a scene (Datan),10 an ....

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Fishy Words (Part I) | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein | 16 Sivan 5781 – May 26, 2021


Targumim in translating “
For example, the
Talmud (
Kiddushin 25a) relates that the people of a certain town mocked Rav Hamnuna, whose name sounds like “
cham nuna” (hot fish), by calling him “
kar nuna” (cold fish).
Rabbi Marcus argues that at the core of “
taninim” (sea-monsters – see Genesis 1:21) is the word “
nun.” In offering this explanation, Rabbi Marcus explicitly rejects scholarly speculation that “
taninim” is a Sanskrit loanword.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch also suggests that “
tannin” is derived from “
nun” but adds that “
nun” itself is derived from “
nin” (offspring or, in Modern Hebrew, great-grandson). He compares “
nun” to “
dag,” which primarily denotes fecundity, but also carries the additional meaning of fish. ....

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