and the meaning would be “causing being”. “Ongoing cause of being” would probably be the most accurate phrase to translate “Yahweh.”

I am delighted to learn this.  Once again, rebbe, I am grateful for your (and lionello’s!) participation in this forum.

(Opens wordorigins.org. Observes Reb Wlm’s posts. Feels like the guy in the movies who hears the cavalry bugles. Heaves sigh of relief. Relaxes )

;-)

Once again, rebbe, I am grateful for your (and lionello’s!) participation in this forum.

Seconded.  This has been a most enlightening thread.

It’s a joy to see you back, rebbe!

(very happy to be back, and thanks for the appreciative words)

A question, Reb Wlm: what kept you?! Welcome back. And congratulations for doing the heavy lifting in the meanwhile, lionello!

(warm thanks, Eliza, for asking re my absence. I will respond off the board. Nothing to do with disagreeing with an etymological point of view)

so I will rejoin my meager light with Lionello’s luminescence and respond to all questions related to the Holy tongue.

Yes, welcome back.

Barukh haba - Welcome indeed, Reb Wlm (and thank you for your kind - if a shade hyperbolical - reference to my feeble 25W). As you can see, it is not your erudition alone that posters at this site value - it’s your presence.

lionello - 04 July 2011 01:29 PM

Barukh haba - Welcome indeed, Reb Wlm (and thank you for your kind - if a shade hyperbolical - reference to my feeble 25W). As you can see, it is not your erudition alone that posters at this site value - it’s your presence.

indeed, welcome back Rebbe!

Dave, Lionello, George—warm thanks, nix that, HUGS all around!