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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: God's name
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 05:28:35 -0700


THANK YOU, Charles! Of course, if somebody is still needlessly
overreactive, you could tell it about a middle-aged, overweight,
caucasian, Irish-descent, unemployed biblical researcher and
computer geek who can't drink any alcohol in the bar because of his
ADD medication, and I promise I won't get offended ;-)

(I thought the joke was delightful.)

>
> One of our list members with an e-mail address only, but whose name I can
> not guess, has
> written the following response to my posting: I find this anti-semitic joke
> highly offensive and
> ask the moderator to put a stop to it immediately.
> Now I know there is no accounting for taste, but I would like to inform
> "Bearpecs" that I am as
> Jewish as chicken soup and a rabbi myself.I have sat through six or seven
> days of dreary
> exchanges about the name of God ranging from one extreme to the other. One
> faction slogs
> through rain, sleet and snow to "prove" what they began the debate already
> believing--that the
> "original" pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton was Ye-Ho-wa, soconvenient
> for the Jehovah's
> witnesses who find themselvescommited to thiscrazy mix of a Ketiv/Qere that
> has absolutely no
> warrant at all. All this gleaned from a book by a Frenchman, and everybody
> knows the French
> can't pronounce their own names correctly! The other faction is championed
> by a lovely lady who
> is a serious practicing Jew of a very traditional ilk, who believes that
> only the high priest ever said
> the name, but who has yet to explain from whom HE heard it or why one of
> the Ten
> Commandments would prohibit something that was never done anyway! All this
> gleaned
> fromQabbalah and a haredi view of "da toyra."
> One member, trying hard to be couteous, suggested we try humor. I posted my
> attempt. If you
> don't find it funny, so be it. As they say, "beauty is in the groin of the
> beholder." I intended it to be
> funny, I sent it as humor, and I still think it is funny. If you don't get
> it, or if you don't think it is
> funny, don't laugh.I live in the parish that borders the home parish of
> David Duke. I know anti-
> semites. And I ain't one.
> In my opinion, what does not belong on a list ostensibly devoted to
> classical Hebrew discussions
> among specialists and teachers of the language are: [1] questions from
> stark beginners; [2]
> theological pleadings that always sound like the final refuge of the truly
> desperate; [3] ad hominem
> exchanges.
> Shalom from one Jew who looks in the mirror and knows God has a sense of
> humor,
> Charles David Isbell
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Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do
with it.
-Emerson





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