[b-hebrew] The root SLX and the word SLIXAH
Isaac Fried
if at math.bu.edu
Sun Sep 23 06:37:42 EDT 2007
Shoshana,
All I say is that SLIXAH, 'forgiveness', never appears in the Hebrew
bible as an act between men.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
> That is only true for sins between man and G-d, not for sins between
> man and man - man has to forgive those.
>
> Shoshanna
>
>
> All,
>
> Now the the Jewish holiday of yom kippur, the day of atonement, is
> over it is worth recalling that the root SLX, and the derived word
> SLIXAH, 'forgiveness', pertains in the Hebrew bible to a divine act
> only. Only God can perform the act of SLIXAH. It is not in the power
> of one man to forgive another man.
> In Jeremiah 5:1
> ש××Ö¹×Ö°××Ö¼ ×Ö¼Ö°××ּצ×ֹת ×ְר×ּש×Ö¸×Ö·Ö´×
> ×ּרְ××Ö¼-× Ö¸× ×Ö¼×Ö°×¢×Ö¼ ×Ö¼×ַקְש××Ö¼
> ×ִרְ××Ö¹××ֹתֶ××Ö¸ ×Ö´×-תִּ×ְצְ××Ö¼
> ×Ö´××©× ×Ö´×-×Öµ×©× ×¢Ö¹×©×Ö¶× ×ִש×ְפָּ×
> ×Ö°×Ö·×§Ö¼Öµ×©× ×Ö±××Ö¼× Ö¸× ×Ö°×ֶסְ×Ö·×, ×Ö¸×Ö¼
> "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
> know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if
> there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I
> will pardon it" [KJV],
> is, in my opinion, also God's words.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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