Dear Karl.
You say: "ברך (BRK) to kneel down (to) -> to bless, not only as a superior blesses
an inferior, but also as a form of greeting and to gain honor".
I wonder where you got all this (it appears to me suspiciously like a
description of sir Lancelot's knighting ceremony). I must say that I do not
find even a shred of biblical evidence to suggest that the act of blessing
involved any ritual of falling on the knees. In Genesis 48:14 we find a blind
old man putting his hands on the head of his grandchildren, but kneeling,
where does this come from?
In fact, I can hardly believe that for such a primeval (recall that in theAre you suggesting that the blessing is the primary meaning, and the
beginning God blessed Adam and Eve and also the seventh day), delicate and
spiritual act that has its origin in the heart and is carried out by voice or
thought the bible would use such a crude imagery as a dubious social custom
of falling on the knees before a superior.
In my humble, yet unwavering, opinion BRAKAH, 'blessing', has nothing to doI find this definition dubious based on its uses in Tanakh. The
with BEREK, 'knee'. They are both different derivatives of the same root,
which essentially means 'to separate', 'to single out', 'to distinguish'.
Isaac Fried, Boston UniversityAs I understand your theory, a lot of time could have passed from the
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