“Historic Treasures” is presented by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro, Director of the Nissan Mindel Publications (NMP), exclusively for COLlive.com.
Each program shares ‘treasures’ from the archives of Rabbi Schapiro’s father in law, Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel OBM, a prolific writer who served as a personal secretary of the 6th and 7th Chabad Rebbes.
The program uncovers fascinating stories, rare artifacts and precious documents from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
So are we allowed to say the names of the week if it is based off of avoda zara
Interesting Info.
Always so interesting !
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Just wondering why did the talks and tales stop?
“Eve” has nothing to do with “evil”. It is simply the English form of Chava, exactly as Joseph is the English form of Yosef and Moses is the English form of Moshe. Nor has “funeral” got anything at all to do with “fumes”. No matter how far back you go in its etymology there is no connection to fumes or to burning. Both the Latin word from which it derives and the Proto-Indo-European root from which that ultimately descends simply mean “death”. Now this does mean it’s an inexact translation of “levaya”, which should perhaps better be rendered as “final… Read more »
b’h All I can say is what we heard from Rabbi Nissan Mindel (who was a true linguist) when he explained to us how many of the words and expressions we use,surprisingly, are rooted in goyishe words and concepts. Without even us being aware of it. One of these, Rabbi Mindel gave as an example – is the name of the first woman, Chava, whose name is translated “Eve”. From the Old English “oeffel” which means “evil”. It is from the King James translation of the Bible. This translation, clearly, was done by goyishe clergy. If you notice – it… Read more »
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Regarding the inquiry about the TALKS AND TALES – the monthly Jewish children’s magazine which Rabbi Mindel authored for about 48 years – why is it that he stopped writing it?
That is a decision which Rabbi Mindel made due to some technical matter, the details of which he did not elaborate on.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Schapiro