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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Davka, was [b-hebrew] Amalekites!
  • Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:13:53 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> On 13/08/2004 13:24, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
>
> > ...
> > That is not true at all. Some Jews may have forgotten, but most of
> > the Jews I know, know without a doubt that the Torah (written and
> > oral) contains within it all knowledge, past present and future, and
> > that the law it contains is DAVKA for the purpose of connecting
> > ourselves with that holiness.
>
>
> For the benefit of us goyim (= non-Jews), what exactly is DAVKA? The
> word is familiar to me only as the name of a Hebrew word processing package.
>
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

Peter:

Don’t you recognize the word DBQ, used as a verb in Genesis 2:24?

Looks like the Yiddish hasn’t changed the meaning much.

Karl W. Randolph.
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