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By: Jewlicious » Oh Palestine, oh Palestine, God shed his grace on thee…

Jewlicious » Oh Palestine, oh Palestine, God shed his grace on thee… — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:57:29 +0000

[...] So hey. Maybe this Hamas victory isn’t so bad. For the first time, we can honestly say we have no negotiating partner. Because we don’t. Instead we have a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist petulant crybaby bitches with combovers. Al hamdu lillah. Filed under: Isralicious Comments: [...]

By: Ofri

Ofri — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:25:15 +0000

whoah, chesticles galore. the before and after pictures are pretty interesting though, those of you who can navigate a site in hebrew.

By: shadai!

shadai! — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:20:05 +0000

ps: shadaim.co.il/ ;]

By: shadai!

shadai! — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:18:25 +0000

Cici – that’s Hungarian for breasts (in kindergarden).

However, in the “Midrash Shemot Rabbah” 3:6, the Rabbis interpret the name thusly:

Rabbi Abba bar Mamel has said: …When I do not immediately punish a person for their sins, I am called, “El Shadai.”

Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish is reported as saying:
What does “I am El Shadai” (Genesis 35:11) mean? [It means,] “I am He who said to the world, ‘Enough!’”

This interpretation is a pun on the name, Shadai. By vocalizing the word differently and by understanding the first letter, “Shin,” as a prefix meaning, “that,” it is possible to view the rest of the word, the letters “Daled” and “Yod,” as the word, “Dai.” The result is the phrase, “that it is enough.” Therefore, Shadai is the name of God implying His will and ability to set limits, to only go so far.

/Hillel/

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:15:09 +0000

Oh damn, Ofri, now I have to admit that I’ve actually still got friends who use the word tzitzim.

At least they don’t giggle after they use it. Then I’d really have to drop them from my list.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:43:17 +0000

Actually, I believe it’s a girl talking about her sister in the text. ‘Cause Shir ha-Shirim switches between male and female narration. ‘Cause it’s cool like that. And as we all know, women plastic surgeons are assur de’rabbanan. Although Rashi’s daughters pumped collagen!

By: esther

esther — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:01:35 +0000

So, those boys who were talking about their poor sister, did they become plastic surgeons? Or is that not in the text?

By: E-Kvetcher

E-Kvetcher — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:27:17 +0000

In the book “Eros and the Jews”, David Biale proposes that “El Shaddai” means the god with breasts;some type of merging of the “Earth Goddess” archetype with El, the traditional Caananite high god. If I recall correctly, his proof was fairly tenuous. In general, it seems that playing fast and loose with Biblical era etymology is a good way to make up a lot of completely unfounded ideas.

By: Ofri

Ofri — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:34:17 +0000

as underwhelmed as i am by the thought of being crossed of the list of your prospective friends, themiddle, i’d like to state for the record that i did not and do not use the word tzitzim, i was merely correcting ck. incidentally, i agree, it’s a stupid word, but i think it would be foolish of you to judge a person’s entire character on that basis alone. by the way, yishar coach to those of you who went to the text, i love it.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:27:03 +0000

And I quote:

“Achot lanu qtanah, v’shadayim ein lah. Mah naaseh l’achoteinu b’yom she’yedaber bah?”

“We have a small sister, and she does not have breasts. What will we do on the day she is spoken for?”

Definitely not slang if it appears in the Bible.