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The sound of thin silence

Today, we want to present a very interesting Hebrew idiom that relates to the interlinked chain of words we’ve been discussing lately: Adam-ground-blood-red-Edom-tears-silence. You may find it surprising, but the biblical text calls ‘silence’ a ‘sound.’ There is an...

Stop, arrest

We saw that ‘silence,’ d’ma•ma, which means cessation of sound, mysteriously shares the same root with one of the words of the linked chain that mirrors the creation: ‘dam,’ blood. The root of both is ‘Dalet,’ ‘Mem,’ ‘Mem’ (D.M.M). Since we could not fully understand...