Biblical Hebrew Forum

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And in case the answer itself was not clear, "ben xorin" means "son of
freedom",or "free person", as opposed to a slave (I'm useing X here for the
letter het(h), instead of "ch"). The phrase is a combination of Hebrew
"ben" and Aramaic "xorin", the Hebrew equivilant of which is Xerut(h). It
appears in the Passover Hagaddah, "we were slaves in Egypt, now we are bene
xorin". The Conservative/Masorti movement in Judaism addopted the phrase as
is in the daily morning liturgy in stead of the traditional "did not make
me a slave".

Yigal Levin

Original Message:
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From: Lewis lbr AT sprynet.com
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:37:03 -0500
To: kwrandolph AT gmail.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Chorin



The only place in the traditional Jewish liturgy that I can think of offhand
where the word "khorin" appears is in the Passover Haggadah;
khet-vav-resh-yid-nun is Aramaic for "free [people]."  (Not that much of the
Siddur is in Aramaic.)  

The quote for Birkot HaShachar appears only in the Conservative liturgy, as
a substitute for the original "shelo asani aved" - that He did not make me a
slave. 

Lewis Reich  

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of K Randolph
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:18 PM
To: B-Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Chorin

Richard:

Do you know the context of where it is found? What are its Hebrew letters?
(Please put them in unicode.) If it is in the Siddur, is it even Hebrew, as
much of the Siddur is Aramaic? What is the context in which it is found? We
are somewhat at a loss.

Yours, Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, richard <richardgg AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone who knows.
> I was asked by a freind who had been working for a couple hours 
> actually trying to locate in a Hebrew Dict. the meaning and the word: 
> Chorin  - it is in the Siddur.
> ???'?
> Anyone tell me a better understanding of this word please.
> Richard Green
>
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