The Etymology of the Esophagus

Just to end with one Ara, it's a Shikavamarim Oken that Nachi Weinstein showed me. So, shout out to Nachi and the Swarm Chatter. >> [snorts] >> And that is So, there was a a very very important classic dictate and grammar work that was written circa late 15th century, early 16th century by a great godel whose name was Rebbie Yo Bocher. The safer that he wrote is called Safer HaTishbi. He wrote other swarms as well. But, the Safer HaTishbi is his most famous work. And it was a a safer that was written on dictate. And this is a safer that received tremendous acclaim by Godel Yisroel throughout the generations. Rebbie Akiva Eiger wrote Hagahos, it's called Eizer Or on Safer HaTishbi. We have Igros from the Pri Megadim where he quotes the Safer HaTishbi many many different times. As a matter of fact, in one place the Pri Megadim talks about the Safer HaTishbi and he says that the Safer HaTishbi when it comes to dictate is Neman Yosam Bimei Adam. He is the authority when it comes to all these things. They say that the Vilna Gaon said that the Safer HaTishbi, Rebbie Yo Bocher, he was the one that was Mechaven Bitachlus when it came to all things related to dictate. Just one interesting anecdote to the Safer HaTishbi written by Rebbie Yo Bocher. By the way, the safer is very often referred to as the Tishbi. And Rebbie Yo Bocher is very often referred to as Bocher. Wasn't a bocher, he was married, but his name was Rebbie Yo Bocher. But, he wrote a book. He actually wrote the first Yiddish novel of all time. Can't make this up. This was a fictional novel and it was called Baba Buch. That was the name. And there's a Yesh Omen Rem, there is a legend that says that Rebbie Yo >> [laughter] >> Bocher, the Tishbi's Baba Buch, is the source, it's the the Maggid to what we know today very fondly as Bubbe Meises. But the bottom line is the very first Yiddish novel ever written was the Bubbe Book. It was written by the Tishbi. He was German, hence Bubbe Book. He lived most of his life in Italy, so he falls under the umbrella of Italian Jews. Either way, in his Sefer HaTishbi, under the ice vav, he has an entry called the veshet. Veshet of kan u veshet thing. Says the Tishbi, "Veshet kan u veshet see chulin 28a." Or you could just say see chulin. HaVeshet hu masha itzel ha kan. Said Reb Elozar ben Yochanan, "The veshet is the pipe that's next to the trachea." That's where all maichel u mishta go through. The yesh omrim, there are some that say that the reason it's called veshet is because it's maluchlach, it's disgusting. And take a look at the Targum on VaYivez, it says vishat. So the reason the veshet is afik is is called the veshet because let's be honest, right? Nobody wants to look over there. It's disgusting. It's where the food that after you chew is going down. And it's for that reason it's called the veshet milashon vishat. V'zeh Tos Gemara. Says the Tishbi, "Kivav shel vishat hishimushes." The vav of the word vishat is shimushes. Shirosho, what's the shorish of VaYivez? The shorish of vishat, it's sha'at min bishat benafshi, Yechezkel 25:15. Avu d'havav shel veshet, the vav of veshet hishroshes. That's part of the shorish, and if that's the case, it's a Tos. In fact, v'lo yadata ish mai bilashon Ashkenaz Gambalaz. And then the Tishbi says, "I'm not sure how you say esophagus today in English, or how you say Balashan Ashkenaz Gambalazi probably meant Italian. He's in Italy when he's writing the safer. But the bottom line is he says, "I'm not really sure how to say it in any other language." But this idea that the word veshan is called veshan Balashan Vayivas Eisav it's the Targum of a shot. This is like a Toscan word. Because the vav of the shot is shimushes. The sheresh of Vayivas is shot. Right? Vayivas is vishat. Right? Had the word said boys, base, so would it said shot? Because it says Vayivas. So that prefix, that vav is shimushes, it's meshamesh, it's assisting, it's a handle to the sheresh of the word. That's where the vav comes from. But the vav of the word veshesh is sheroshes, it's part and parcel of the sheresh of the word. This sheresh is shot, this sheresh is vishat or veshet. Not the same word. And that yesh omerim is a Toscan. If you take a look at Rebi Yakov Emden in Sago on this entry of the Tishbi, he says as follows. He says veshet whoever etzel hakana. So that's the evrachol, that's the tube that's next to the trachea. Kana Balashan Chazal Gargeres, right? We had that in the beginning of today's daf. U Balashan Torah Garoin, and Balashan Ashkenaz Gurgel. Veshet Balashan Ashkenaz is the shlung oder Rotzoy Lomer Gid Habliah. This is what Rebi Yakov Emden says. Now he says as follows. This is not shiyach. Umash omer this study said yesh omerim shiyikra kein bavur shehu meluchlach u bazuy. Milashan Vayivas Eisav Targum Beshot. Al Yehezeh Rochok Beinechem. Don't let that shot be so rochok. Af al pisha hu zal kosav. Even though he himself said she azu Toscan [snorts] Mura. Viyois havav shel veshet shimushes. Right? It's to tell us to say that that's what it is. The vav of you there's that is she motions but to say that the vov of that is she motions no it's shroshness. The he said the reason the vov became part of the word is because the word veshed always comes together with connor. You don't just say veshed. You say the connor and the veshed. That connor will come to veshed. And you always say the connor first. Right? When you learn it's not the veshed and the connor it's always the connor and the veshed. I'll came that's why the word veshed the real word was shot maybe but the word shot needed a vov she motions. You know why? Because it always comes after something that it's coming together with. It's always part two of a two part series. So it's with that reason being that it always came after the connor so therefore it always needed that vov. She motions. So I will teach you believe of of being that the word is always mentioned almost an analytic. You're going to see it's always mentioned with the vov so therefore the vov became part of the the vov so if you have a word that so often is used together with a vov she motions or some other she motions that can become part of words. He says the he said I know you're all rolling your eyes now. Make a taste it. [laughter] It's not I'll give you a marker to this. He said take a look at the word vayed she he does even Ezra which according to the what's that word vayed? Right? What does vayed mean? Me look at Sarah. Even Ezra says it's a me look at Sarah kill him you and me what the ad oil on. Vayed vayed is really a way of saying the oil on the ad oil on. It's really not the word void. The word of void is ad. That vav always came together with the ad cuz you say from now until then. So being that it was always the ad, so we almost created a new word called void and it looks, feels, smells, tastes, sounds like the vav is shorash but really it's not cuz if you go back to the etymology of the word, the word was really ad. The vav was shimush but it was used so often that it became part of the shorash. Shavav shimush the shavav the shorash said Ibn Ezra. I have another good one. The milas kruvim is great. The word kruvim what's the word kruvim? It's like a child. Really the word is ravya. It's not kiravya. I think we even spoke about this a little bit. It's not kiravya. The word was really ravya. So then why is it kruvim in the Torah? Why was it kruvim? It's ruvim. The kruvim were like a ravya. So why is it always like that? Oh but being that it was often referred to as kruvim that kaf became part of the shorash. He's going to find And then he says the Ulam This year he said the Tishbi didn't want to tell you who it was. But I'm going to tell you where you can find It's actually a Zohar. min the shot is really in the which means you can't just say it's a toast Gamorah, is fascinating if you know the relationship between and the desire. But the bottom line is he's saying it can't be a toast Gamorah and he's me and he says in fact me and really what is the word? You want to know what the word is? The word was really shot and it's how did the word become part of the of the word cuz that's an idea. You find some time the right something that really at its core was supposed to be she ends up becoming and that's how you have this thing.