What Is the Origin of the Names of the Jewish Months?

my oh um oh foreign um oh good morning everybody good morning to all who are joining us from wherever you're joining us from across the world thank you very much for being here with us today is the 25th day of thomas 57 81 and july 5th 2021 open your source sheets please if you're joining us in zoom with the zoom i put the pdf in the chat you see go to the chat you'll find the source sheets you have to go to the chat and zoom and then you'll see there pdf or you can as usually open it and download it on the yoshiva.net either way please open up the source sheet and we're ready to begin oh yeah yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna so today's today's sheer is dedicated by our dear friend above ron brook in loving memory of advertiser yettle basri abram his daughter in tribute to her yard site on the 24th day of thomas may she be a good better for her entire family and all of her loved ones and all the jewish people and continue to be a source of blessing and inspiration or to hey her soul that was taken at a young age to hindus until the great moment of he kids of iran and russia offer thank you very much you should have only serious towers thomas niggling a lot of macas from the honduras amen today we're going to begin learning a sister by the laboratory that's titled menachem of that summer 1982 during the fabregan of shabbos matasa masai and a part of it also from shabbos emmer top shellamed zion practice emira 1977 and it deals with an incredible theme that's connected to the three weeks that's connected to the nine days that's connected specifically to the month menachem of the month of jaidish of which we're going to usher in this week is coming shabbos it's also of course connected to the parachutes of matas and marseille i chose it not just because of the relevance to the time but as you will see that the laboratory here opens up vistas to incredibly powerful and revolutionary insights into how the tire views the relationship of mind body soul exile redemption our relationship with god what god gives us and what weak of ayah give back it's very very deep extremely deep and extremely powerful sikha of the rebbe and let's begin the journey it's a long sister and it's as i said it's extremely apropos for this time of the year because that's what it deals with but its messages are really universal and timeless it's in yiddish the language in which he spoke and in which it was transcribed and edited by him published in the kudes volume 23 parishes hashem i'll translate so everybody will be able to understand if you didn't open up your source sheets please do that now if you're on the zoom there's a link you can open it in chat or you can go to the yeshiva.net that's t-h-e the t-h-e yeshiva y-e-s-h-i-v-a dot net n e t and you'll see on top in the home page it says monday class and you click on it and on top of the video it says view source sheets or below the video you see download you could download the source sheets if you're watching this at a later date you could just go to recent classes and this class will come up the rule of thumb in the jewish calendar is that when the two parshas the two portions of mata's mase are linked together we read them both which is by the way in most years there's only two unique situations in the calendar where we read matas and maasai separate as he says in footnote one but most years matas mase are together so they're always read either in the shabbas that blesses menachem of the shabbas preceding the month the shabbos in which we bless the new month or in the first shabbos of the month of menachem of for example this year tafshin payal 5781 rish redesign shabbos so the first day of of is on shabbos and that's the day when we're going to read matasma in the first shabbos of the month of alpia you do what's known this is a famous axiom that's stated by the great sha allah rabbani is the 16th century and 17th century great sage and rabbi of frankfurt prague and jerusalem roberto shahihara it's known as the shallow because of his work schneiderlin so he writes as allah and welcomes they varying all the portions of the terror are connected to the times when we read them so for example it's not just what the shallow is saying it's not just we read through the terror throughout the year we want to finish the terrorists every shabbos we do a power show or two we begin simchaster shabba is beratious and then we conclude some hysterera it happens to be that hanukkah will read parshasmikates right and during the three weeks or during of we'll read parches matasmasi but that's just you know part of the cycle it's coincidental he says that's not the case the portions of the terror are always connected to the time of the year in which we read them the week the month the festival the holiday the events of the time is move on as the parasitism so from these words of inshallah we can understand that the two portions matres and mase are connected not just to the general unit of the three weeks because they're read always during the three weeks mata is read during the bain amit syrup means between the straits which represents the 21 days from the 17th of thomas to the ninth above but it's also connected and perhaps primarily connected to the month of menachem of within the three weeks because matas must say when they read together is always read either in the first shabbos of of or in the shabbos that blesses the month of of and as he says in footnote three he quotes this shallow with inshallah says about this that that the parasitism are always connected to the bay namitzaram and in footnote 4 he says that we have in this time of the year the yeshna to take a look at footnote four in the bottom of the page the yeshna we have number one closed asmanda benamitsar we have the unit of time called being a material we call it the three weeks that's generally vahi now this unit of time number two muskhalakis remember can be further subdivided into the days of tamils in the days of of the three weeks span from 17th of thomas all the way to the ninth of so you have that subdivision two months shaheem further division three miscalcumly made hillis of versailles a further division is in the days of itself you have the days of the beginning of the month above and you have shavu which means the week in which tishaba falls out halal that has different categories so within the month of itself so we have different categories in allah we have the unit called the three weeks that spans shiva subatomis tiltish above but then you have with then within that itself you have the that are related to the days of tamas and then when the of begins it's a new category in of itself number three you have the beginning of of the first few days and then you have the week in which tituba falls out which has a unique stringency the week in which tish above falls out shahu and then he goes number four the last one muscalic and this itself is divided of allah not always depends on the year and depends on the calendar the days of the week which means sunday monday tuesday then you have ariftesh above the day of before and then you have tish above tish above itself then you have tish above shannitra trish above that gets pushed off from shabbos to sunday and then you have mercedes above the night and the day after teshaba vanavkam and gamla payal and all of these units have consequences as explained in s in these laws and in the commentaries on the so you have again the union of the three weeks which is divided number two in tamil zanov which number three is divided the beginning of and the week in which tisha falls out which then further further in that week itself you'll have the days of the week in which tisha falls out and then you'll have the day before tisha buff you'll have tish above you'll have tish above if it's pushed off a day it's pushed off because if it falls out on shabbos you don't fast and you'll have midsize to ship off now he says this already depends on the week for example this year to shabbat is on a sunday so you don't have in the same week arif tishombov and tisha but it's a tissue what's the rebbe's point here with this if it's an interesting footnote what's his point his point is that when you say matas mase is connected to the time you could say it's connected to the general time the bain amitsaram that's true the three weeks but within that unit of time there's other subdivisions further subdivisions this was the precision in which there ever would talk and communicate and write that we're talking here about the connection not just with the general unit but also to the specifics of the month of manachamov this is his first introduction that the parasitism the custom of the jewish people and when you say minhing a mini gestural it's tarahee it has a definition of torah as he says in footnote five your xiaomi champion both state that a minig that is entrenched by the jewish people an authentic meaning is tired it's part of torah so the meaning by the jewish people is that when we blast bless the new month shabbos maverick when we bless the new month we call this month menachem of right you remember on shabbos it has two words and it's not just a custom you know it's an expression it's relevant in law practically the way you write the name of the month when you write a legal document and a legal document has to be legal and therefore every word is relevant you're talking about a get you're talking about another star that has legal authority and the time the month the day is important so he says if somebody writes in a get or another very important document the date menachem of you don't say there's a problem here it's called of no it's completely fine furthermore as the authorities explain even if you just write in the date menachem you don't write of you're right say you'd gimmel me the get would still be valid why don't month the answer is because it's known by everybody that the month of of is called even if you just write menachem it's fine as he brings in footnote from the safer famous book get posted in evanezer the commentary get pasha and of the previous generation so he writes he brings in footnote six that we don't have the minute to write just menachem we don't write just menachem but he says if somebody wrote menachem of it's kosher at least with the evid because that's the nusa in all of the communities the way they bless the month and that's how people write it in the letters etc the point is whether it's this vinegar that means the name is menachem of and therefore if somebody puts that in a get even only the word menachem according to the poison is kush furthermore as he brings from the get pusher to number seven some people have a minute that when it comes to aksuva or other documents they don't even write of it's a mimic that they write only what's his point his point is that this name in achamav is a very jewish name that's the minig of how to bless the new month we don't just call it of we call it menachem and some people even call it only and certainly if you write menachem of it's a completely kosher gut because that's how jews call it what do the words menachem of mean he's now going to analyze and that's going to be the focus of this one of the main focuses is what does the word men we say it of means a father what does menachem means he comforts right menachem from the word on tish above we have a special prayer we say means comfort soulless we offer condolences he says we offer our so what does menachem of mean little literal translation it means he comforts the father menachem is this what it means that we comfort the father or the father comforts us it says vyesh from the perusal act it's possible to explain one of the meanings in menachem but here we need an introduction does it really even make sense to analyze the name of a jewish month we have 12 names we have nissan ear sivan thomas of el tishri kislav tavis and of course shavat and other other could sometimes be one and two but let's remember um our sages tell us something fascinating the names of the months came up with the jewish people when they ascended from babylonia if you read the homicide or the naviem you don't see the names of months right you won't find anywhere telling the jewish people you left mitzrayim in the month of nisan or you received the terror in the month of seven it doesn't exist why so this is what the gemara tells us it's your xiaomi message and madrid as he says in footnote eight and taisus brings in in rosh hashanah that the names of the months that we are familiar with nissan e or seven this is not something that the jewish people originally possessed the month of nisan is called in homage it's called the first month what we call nissan didn't have the nameless and they called it the first month when the terror wants to speak about the day of rosh hashanah the day of yim kippur what does it say if you look in pasha's emma what does it say it says the seventh month on the first day of the month or the seventh month the tenth day of the month it's all numbers months had were defined by numbers just like the days of the week yeah in hebrew we're not on sunday monday tuesday we have you i'm reaching back like we're saying this the famous ramban about it the same is true with the names of the month they didn't have names every month had a number and when you said the number you knew which month it was so where did we get these names and that's why you'll see in humish and in the early prophets you don't see the names the answer is this is something the jews brought back from babylonia they went down to babylonia present-day iraq and iran in gallus the first exile when the first commonwealth was destroyed the first place of ministry was destroyed of babylonia the the king the monarch of babylonia in the year five eight six bce according to the secular calendar in our calendar the chris is a tribute is happens in the year three three three eight three thousand three hundred and thirty eight gimbal allah from shin lam three thousand three hundred and thirty eight since creation that's when the destroys the first place and the jewish people descend into a babylonian exile that would last for at least seven decades and many would stay but forty-two thousand would come back so when the jewish people come up from bhava say the sages they bring some gifts that they received while they were in exile one of them is the names of the months the names of the months comes from babylonia now this is interesting what does this mean statement so the commentators explained the evanesra as he brings in footnote 10. the commentators say that all the names of the months are not names of the holy language of hebrew nissan e or seven thomas they're not jewish names they're babylonian names or persian names they come from the jewish people's time in kazdin kazdam is babylonia which later was uh which was taken over a few decades later by the persian the persian empire which is called faisa and it's the area of iraq and iran so he says the mephirsham say that all the names they're not hebrew names they're not names of lash and kurdish they're names that come from babylonia their language and we took them we borrowed them and we brought them back to eretz israel and we inserted them and made them part of jewish life in the jewish culture fascinating says the rebels ah yeah it's very fascinating interesting yeah yeah and he says in footnote 10 you could research this you have to have an ezra and the impartials he has a safer called tyrus schlemmer some parishes boy he has are you a long explanation on this as it's all it's all in foot note 10 all the references they're very common cushions yeah these footnotes were were they may have not all been written but many of them were written by the rebbe but they were all heavily edited by him he would often add and take away even if they were prepared by others he edit them very heavily he added a lot of things he took out things and the rebber was very very meticulous about footnotes you'll see in all of the circus sometimes the footnotes are much more than the text itself you see in this page how many footnotes there are and this is sometimes the footnotes could be you know extremely elaborate the rebbe was a very very big proponent of giving sources for everything and many sources and getting the sources right and knowing exactly what it says in the sources and building on the sources that's why everything has so many sources and everything is stated where it comes from and even the language exactly for example he says so in footnote 9 he says but you should know that madrid is the word beyodam is missing in your xiaomi it says the word beyodam so even one word how it's written in gamora how it's written in madrish he takes note of abraham pisa varan kamakushas but this this statement even though hazal say it and the mepharsham say that they obviously mean that they're not jewish names it raises questions what are the questions from them is something very strange i'll take these names very seriously because they take the names of the months and they explain it they expound on the names explaining the meaning of these names the way they are in hebrew right an example he brings in footnote 14. the matrix tells us i'm sick why is it called nissan why is nissan called nissan so the answer is because nissan is a babylonian name that's why it's called nissan ask the babylonians ask the babylonians why they name the nissan so the method says no you know why it's called nissan shaboy nasu nissemli israel nissen comes in the word nace nace means a miracle like the gemara says in brachas about if you see listen in a dream right miracles happen this thing comes in the word nace miracles wonders it's the month in which miracles happened i'm reading from the 14th the tarot islamic brings up explaining the names of all the monks as though they were hebrew words of elo and then translates the word what the word means in hebrew what this word in hebrew means and explains that's why this month was named that way for one second i don't understand you just said that it's named that way because just it was just babylonian names and the jews lived in babylonia so they picked up things from the culture they picked up stuff from the babylonian culture you're going to start doing the same thing in english things we picked up in american jews are here in america for a long time things from american culture that get inserted into the jewish world that's just the way it is not the names of the months i mean we have you know we have april and may and june and july they're not considered jewish names but let's say they would become jewish names let's say we wouldn't have nissan ears see we have april may and june and then you start telling me april with gun said russia's it's a little strange you know in the fashion there's a whole discussion about different acronyms of the name elo right anila dodi vedili it's a babylonian name for heaven's sake maybe we should take the name april or the name july j-u-l-i'd stop making russia davis said i'm july right what's july julie say yuli is you advocate we have this whole thing with elo anila divided [Music] beautiful acronyms for elo the bach and the ham and that rizal and many commentators it's a babylonian name don't take it so seriously and they do this with all the months constantly and he continues and it's not like the gemara there's a there's a sugya famous where he uses common terminology full fork language and shows the symbolic the symbols what it means like daesh's derek a path development is it's clear in the gemara that it's just homolytical it's more charming and cute in other words explaining expressions and showing that they intimated ideas that they were used for there was an expression dasha and he says dasha was used as a path derek is derek the var dashes nobody says that that word dasha was a hebrew word and the gemara is explaining the meaning of what the word means in hebrew no it's just like uh it's called aremez it's a homolotical intimation i remember once once uh in uh was once a sikh it was shabbos 1987. so the rebels spoke that should have recorded his father-in-law's father-in-law said that in our times the jewish people have finished their avoid the soldiers are ready the uniforms are ready what's left is without supports in the knap we have to polish the buttons right it's the mac of a partisan it's the end of the end the soldiers are ready the soldiers were trained thousands of years the uniforms are ready but you know the last step is you got to polish the buttons you got to polish the buttons so he says that's what we have to do if they power the buttons the rabbit said that the buttons can have on them some he said in english some dust some dust so you got to get rid of the dust so when they prepared the seeker when they prepared that particular talk so i was a little involved then so even though it's usually not done but since they've ever used an english word so they put in that english word in in in idish dalid alef tess das there's a little dust even though you could have just wrote written in yiddish which is dust but the rabbi said dust so they put in dust so he writes a footnote and he says if we want to employ humor aldera we want to employ some humor dust is da citra dust is dust you have to get rid of the citra so we understand this concept that sometimes you'll take an english word or you'll take an aramaic word and you'll find it's not it's not just humor in the sense that it's it's a joke i don't mean humor as a joke it's just it's more it's more humor in the sense that nobody's saying it's the literal interpretation it's a remnants so that's where the gemara in shabbos is goes through different expressions that are not in hebrew and just finds some intimation to a hebrew meaning and that's why people use it or at least it's connected to the way people use it now but in the seniors that we quote it is over there when you read through those madrashim it seems like that it's not just a far-fetched hint nissan we know doesn't mean miracles nissan is a babylonian name babylonian title for the month listen for the first month of the year once we have it let me give you a little cute hint listen means a nes when you read them at russian it seems like they're saying no this is the reason it has the name nissen shaboy nasun is similar israel this is the taj this is the the meaning of the word which is which is very strange if it all comes from babylonia as the mafirsham say it's not lush and kaidish if it's not martian kaidish it doesn't mean nissan means something else whatever it means in the persian language in the babylonian language you want to ask something it's clear it's a good question in hebrew you say miracle mace how you say a miracle in persian i don't know is there any farcy hit maybe he'll tell us you know farsi oh footnote 16 batoya there was mendel kasher yeah shlaimakasha you had a father you had a son they created the beautiful beautiful set it's a brilliant set called tara schleimer what they did what what kasha did in the tereshlama was something amazing is he compiles on every passage all the madrasham that are in that passage from everywhere not just gemara but all the midrash and then he has footnotes where he explains them and then in the back of the svarim he takes different complicated and interesting issues and he compiles everything there is about them so there's a lot of very fascinating things entire schleimer that he goes through this is one of them one of his chapters parsha's boy and he deals with the names of the month that lay at length it's called in pouches by me liam it's like at the end of boy he has these these epilogues that he had so he calls it irish that ever would bring it would quote him very very often somebody wants to know why the gemara discusses the idea of of of uh of daesha derek shum and what's what's the point of the point of it the point of it is it's a story it's a story that the gemara brings in shabbos we once spoke about the story that zera one of the great talmudic sages was repseira and he met rabbi huda and the buddha was standing at the entrance of his own father-in-law's house and the zeitgeist is he's in a very very good mood he's in a cheerful mood and if zeta realized that he can ask him if you heard that anything under the sun and he would tell him the answer so he asked the famous question remember we once learned about it why do goats walk in front of of the flock and the ewes the sheep follow the goats that's usually the system so if you would have told them you remember because in the creation of the world first there was darkness and then there was light and goats are typically darker so therefore they precede the ewes which are typically white okay this is shabbos base it's an interesting thing shabbos 77 beats an interesting thing that when he sees his rabbit yehuda in such a cheerful mood this is what he decides to ask obviously ah no no no no no no no let's let's do the questions when i pause it'll just be easier okay then he goes through a bunch of other questions very very interesting questions he wants to know why the grasshopper's antenna is soft that's what he wants to know why does a chicken's lower eyelid cover the upper one these other types of i mean you could look it up in in shabbos but then he says why is a door called desha in aramaic that's the question why do we call a door desha so review the answer is kusdesha dasha is derek dalachin what does derek shaw mean it's the way through which you go in that's the way that's why your door is called the dasher because through the door you're going to the house that's the derek you go into the house now what does he mean here he means that daesh is a hebrew word no in aramaic they called a word they called ador dacha in a cheerful way says there's a hint for us jews dasha is derek he asks him also why is a steer in aramaic called dargah you know dargah by the way dargah became a very jewish word madriga dargah right why is a steer called dargah so he says to him darg is derek it's the way to the roof derek gag it's a way to the roof now that actually may be connected to hebrew because we have in shi hashirim then he goes through another word what's the other word he goes through the word spices spices are called masculisa musculissa so he says because masai tikla da when will this be finished because spices are used sparingly so they last a long time so mos kuli says mustard when is it gonna finish in other words we always have it because the spices would would not get spoiled and they would remain for a long time people don't use spices so often and not a lot of it you don't want to ruin the food then he says why is base so called basa why is a house called basa so he says boy basic come and sit there come and i will sit in it okay so bias you have actually in hebrew right then he says bixa what's big a small house is called the bixa in aramaic why because bay aksa bayaksa means it's a narrow place it's it's a place in which you feel stressed because it's narrow it's small bait what do all these things mean and then he goes through a bunch of stuff it's a whole long list many of the words mama's a very long list he goes to probably another 10 10 names you could you could read it on your own shabazz and zion what's the point in all of this he's not saying that these are hebrew words necessarily nobody's saying dasha is a hebrew word he's just finding a hint dash is derek but in his mid-russian it seems to be much more dramatic it seems that they're actually explaining the meaning in hebrew of these names yeshua massey continues one can answer and it seems like this is actually a simple answer and the questions are removed okay and the answer is that peter's my miraza although perhaps when our sages said that the names of the month came up with the jewish people from babylonia just translate the words they're talking about the names of the months not not that not not nothing else in other words that these names become the names of the months that's what they took from babylonia the connection of the word with the month the fact that the first month of our year we call nissan that came from bubble but perhaps the words themselves are not from the language of bubble and that's why they can explain all these words as though they were hebrew words what they learned from bubble was the shame of not that the names themselves the words themselves are from the babylonian language no to associate these words and attribute them and connect them align them match them up with the first month the second month the third month the fourth month thomas should be called tamos and of should be called up the fifth one should be called of and the sixth month should be called elo that's what they got in bubble so the connection of the name of the title with the month that it's it's called sheamus it becomes its name that came from bubble it's the skadaswala but the word itself the word itself has serious significance in russian kaidos which we know is considered a holy language and every word is meticulous and therefore they're explaining the meaning of that word nissan comes from the word nissan comes from the word nace and the same is true with the other months and that's why ello ello can have many acronyms in hebrew amnila what about this is that a hebrew word i know it is and therefore evil could mean anila divided this would explain it and he brings in that rashi has an expression for qaeda before they came to babylonia these names were not revealed it's an interesting expression they weren't revealed they weren't revealed it means in other words it seems like that the names they had it was just not connected to these months this is one way of explaining it even if you're going to want to say that this is a far stretch and at least some of the names are not hebrew you might for example say tamos elul yeah kisliv shabbat they're not hebrew names they're not hebrew names at least some of them you might insist that no this is babylonian language he says perhaps maybe first it ever suggests that no the names are hebrew names the names of the months they got from babylonia in other words to connect these names with babylon but with this month it came from babylon now he's saying even if you want to say that that's not the case at least some of them are really from babylonian language certainly there is an exception and that's of because of means a father and that's a frequent name of course in the tanakh in hebrew of his father so of is obviously means a father furthermore and this is the main thing was the fact is any way you're going to spin this that these became names that the torah employs the toyota employs these names as he goes through in footnote 19 that are ready in tereshabiksav in the later writings you have the names of these months in teresha maksov and certainly in turo shabalpa you have for example the name of you have in mishnayous and tainas and tagomeshini and tagamian in other words these became names that were fully embraced by tita so he says if that's the case if that's the case we understand any way you want to spin it that you can also translate the names as though they were hebrew words so when you come to the name of menachem of don't tell me of doesn't mean a father of has some meaning go find god in babylonia what it meant at the time no certainly even if you want again there's different ways of interpreting this there's different ways of interpreting it but whatever you want to say it makes a lot of sense it's appropriate to say that of could be translated as a father in other words the way of is in lush and kaidish even if you want to say that the word they actually got from there not just the name because it becomes a terror name it was completely introduced into tata just to say here two interesting footnotes in 16 he quotes her of kasha who says that that's not the case the jewish people the ghazal tried to judaize the names of the month i'm learning 16. our sages tried you know it means to judeas it's an interesting word li they tried to make a yehudi to take the names of the month and make them jewish to put into them jewish content in other words they knew that it wasn't jewish they knew that it was babylonian but they decided to manipulate it and make it jewish to what you know you adopt a child they adopted these words they're like they made it part of the family they put in jewish ideas into the name vitsar which is of course in contradiction to what we're saying but says it's hard to understand why don't we say here that all the other madrashima names of our sages are different and here it's uniquely different because in the other midrashim they're actually explaining the meaning of the name and here you're going to say they're not explaining the meaning of the name they know it's not the meaning of the name they're just trying to impose a jewish theme into this name even though it's not the meaning of the name he says that would make these madrashim in a completely different genre which is difficult to suggest and see what he himself brings from every second language where it's difficult to impose this in footnote 18 in footnote 18. so he's he's he's seems like he's arguing here with do you mind do you mind uh footnote 18 he says something else that's very interesting even according to the mufashim who hold that all these names are really babylonian names they're not jewish and they're not in hebrew we could still say something very special based on the shalom shalom says as follows listen to this this is footnote 18. what does rashi say anybody remembers what's tight tough is you remember why is filling kolta tough is anybody remembers nobody remembers white filling a coltai toughest exactly exactly tat and pass yeah in africa and in kaspi tatan means two so taito faces two and two so i don't understand so to fill in the name for filling in hamish is from africano to africano nelson mandela gave us that word taytovos you grew up there you speak afrikaan you never heard taitafa's okay you have did you learn ancient africana from pre-biblical times okay so this allah says something interesting whenever you find in ghazal they take a word and they say this is a word in greece in ancient greek or it's a word in africano or another language don't think that the title put in words that are not lush and kaidish why would the titan not put it it's a titan lush and criticized why you why using afrikaner why are you using greek greek words the shot is like this when god created the world that was only lush and kaidos that was the language later with the story of the tower of babel we have the derhaflaga that's when the lang the na cultures got dispersed nations got dispersed and they developed different languages and when different languages developed they took words from russian kaidish that became part of their languages when tara uses a word in ancient greek or a word in ancient africano it's the word in lush and kaidish that got mixed into their language just like we have today in english or in yiddish words that are really lush encounters to keep words they got mixed into the english language they got mixed into latin they got mixed into french they got mixed into ancient greek so the toyota is just really reclaiming its own words its own words that got mixed into other languages because it all started with los angeles this is what the shallow explains and the minecraft salazar the mooncatcher who we foot know who he references here discusses this so the rabbit says it's possible a whole new angle maybe these are babylonian names and the they took from babylonia but they're still rooted ultimately in russian kurdish and that's why the terror completely embraces them makes them so to speak jewish and interprets them as jewish words and this would of course explain as he says in 20 why el has all of these hebrew acronyms as though that's the meaning of elo when it's not not even a hebrew word other they say is alev hashem lives other is the time when you have to find that god is living in everything olive other aleph door what are you talking about it's not olive darts not echo but again he's saying once the turtle embraced it you can give it an explanation for hebrew as a hebrew word now why is he giving this whole introduction why is he given it shows you the rebel is building an idea this sikh is going to be based on the meaning of menachem of what does menachem of mean but yet the whole premise would seem flawed if we didn't give this introduction because you're building a bridge from what you have to have a foundation if though if menachem of of came from babylonia and of doesn't mean a father means something else they just attached it with this name with this month so then this whole explanation would seem very strange at best it would just be a far-fetched cute explanation you know just homiletic not real not authentic he wants to show that it's not the case that you're talking here about a name that is a hebrew word and therefore can have a hebrew translation and therefore we can explain it that way le fisa compta is le fisa comptis when you're talking about the jewish people who is our father we have one father our father in heaven hashem so menachem of means he comforts the father from if we would have named this month of menachem of menachem what would it mean the father comforts of the father menachem he comforts the father comforts his children his children who are in mourning who are grieving the father comforts them of menachem as he brings in 22 the maharil has an expressional question of a let the father have compassion on us but we don't call it of menach we call it menachem of and we just explain that the names of the months are not just persian and babylonian and we're just using them symbolically they have real meaning in hebrew either because the names come from the jewish people it's just the babylonians taught them how to assign the names to certain months and even if it's not true with all the names it's certainly true with the name of and menachem which are hebrew words and even without that the turtle embraces these names and therefore they become titanic names and therefore you could translate them in hebrew even if you want to say that attack all came from babylonia and regardless you could say a third point in sha allah that really even if it came from bologna originally it's lush and kaidos but any way you want to spin this the bottom line is you can explain the names of menachem would mean the father comforts us menachem of means we comfort the father the of the father is the one who receives the nahum like we say in nachen there's a blessing on tish above and she's saying right so we say menachem what does menachem see in mean who comforts whom not see you in comforts us god comforts seeing menachem goes on the one who comforts see zion is the recipient of the nakama is so menachem means see is comforted by hashem barakat hashem who receives the comfort seeing who gives the comfort to your body when you say menachem of who receives the comfort the father menachem of who comforts who comforts the father the jewish people wow this is pretty intense so the main of the month is not the father comforts the children it's the children comfort the father what do you say about that as that god cries and says woe unto a father who has exiled his children and woe unto children who have been exiled from the table of their father so god speaks about his own pain a father who lost his children so we comfort him so menachem of is the idea that we comfort the father menachem of now this is very intense what does this mean first of all what does it mean that we comfort god second of all why does god need comfort so he says because he lost his children his children were exiled great granted how do we comfort him and the big thing is we don't even talk about him comforting us but we talk about us comforting him not him comforting us that's the big question and that's going to be the paradigm the foundation that this sikh is going to develop in the next in the next stickle i'm going to wish you all a beautiful day we're going to take a break here god willing will continue this thursday morning 7 30. you should all have a lot of meaningful day and an aspiring day tomorrow morning tuesday 9 45 we have our weekly parties here everybody is invited on the yeshiva.net or here on zoom in the meantime to all of you perhaps you could say shivat is a hebrew word perhaps maybe i don't know you're saying it comes in the word it's possible that's the discussion here said the hebrew word is it a pablonian word it's not clear the evan ezra never nazra he brings evan astra and his kuni they believe that all these names take a look in footnote 10 all these names are basically babylonian names or persian names it's a pleasure to have you the salmon many worlds in arabic you have it in arabic constantly you see that they have a lot of words from hebrew right that's what the shalom says allah says that many cultures and many nations they took hebrew words especially arabic because of the region arabic is not aramaic right right i'm not familiar i don't know when arabic developed i don't know we have to ask the linguists among us do we have any linguists here because they're seventeen right and maybe maybe aramaic may be one of those i don't know does it change the fact that the and you're talking about this is the 11th and 12th century great spanish sage and poet and philosopher and greatest great genius in science and astronomy and biblical commentator he says that the way you find the torah the tanakh defining months it's always by numbers not by names not by names yes maisha will tell you that the first month is it's the time when the the grain starts becoming ripe that's a way to understand what the first month is the day the month when we went out of egypt but then he says the names nissan ear siven thomas all these names he says they're not leshan kurdish they're lush and kazdam they come from babylonia and he says that's why you will not find them in that's why you will not find them in the beginning of tanach because they were not jewish they're not part of a jewish life he says only later when you get to the prophecies of scaria daniel ezra mcgillis esther mcgilly you have it right you remember in the megillah it says that haman threw a lot right and the lat lalat fell out on which month adar mcgillis esther you have the month ada you have the month 7 you have the month nissan why so devin ezra says because they developed an exile when did the megillah happen when was miguel's esther written after the jews went into exile and they were under babylonian rule and on the persian rule and the days of achashvirus the story of purim happened so that's why mcgillis esther you'll find these names so this is the view of the avanasara this is the view of the this corny was one of the reshahnam he says in this issue this is what it seems like to be the view of the ramban this is what rav khashoggi if kasha explains at length in teresh lima right the question is what about the name of the name of as he says in footnote 11 what about of of is a jewish name so he says it could be that venezuela means most of the names come from babylonia not all of them of is a jewish name or maybe even of is a babylonian name that's what he says in footnote 11. it's possible that they believed that of was a babylonian or persian name because of and they named this month august of because of certain things that happened at that month or whatever that time of the calendar is connected with and it's somehow intimated in the name of in the persian or babylonian meaning not hebrew so that would be really fascinating that even of doesn't mean father of means something else that's one way of looking at it and therefore there's no reason to explain any symbolisms in the names of our months but then the rabbit says you see that the ghazal did explain symbolisms so that's why he suggests a few different options number one that the names the titles themselves are hebrew ones it's just their associations with the months come from babylonia number two even if that's not the case with many of them but that's the case with of that it's a hebrew name it's just association with this month comes from a bologna yeah number three you could say that regardless of all of this the fact that the toyota re-embraces these names it becomes part of terror language it becomes part of turtle vernacular and therefore you can explain it in hebrew even if it originated in babylonia it was so to speak adopted so to speak and then he adds that other point from the shallow that perhaps even if you say they were completely babylonian it's possible that they were originally los angeles and then they fell into babylonia and the jews just reclaimed them as their own and therefore you could certainly explain them as hebrew words and that's why he goes on to explain the meaning of menachem of it's similar to some american games that are actually beautiful beautiful beautiful yeah yeah amazing story today my daughter went to a gas station the other day get some gas and the non-jewish person that was helping her with the gas said to her i hear that the jewish people are getting ready to build the third temple and my daughter has a good good cup she said it's going to be good for you also well said well said