parsha bit: Vayeira
Nov. 17th, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioS'dom and 'Amorah were destroyed because of their great evil. Rabbi Yehudah said that the leaders of S'dom made a proclamation that anyone who so much as gave a loaf of bread to a poor man would be put to death. He further says that Lot had a daughter who fed a poor man and was punished in this way.
(Source: Pirke d'Rabbi Eliezer)
Aside: can anyone reading this tell me how the translators got from 'Amorah (ayin, patach) to "Gomorah"? There's no gimel there. (The vowel change is less surprising, as random vowel changes in translation/transliteration aren't uncommon. But adding a consonant is novel.)
(Source: Pirke d'Rabbi Eliezer)
Aside: can anyone reading this tell me how the translators got from 'Amorah (ayin, patach) to "Gomorah"? There's no gimel there. (The vowel change is less surprising, as random vowel changes in translation/transliteration aren't uncommon. But adding a consonant is novel.)
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Date: 2005-11-17 04:46 pm (UTC)Time for a phone post!
the dot inside
dagesh?
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Date: 2005-11-17 04:56 pm (UTC)Dagesh is right, I think.
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Date: 2005-11-17 04:56 pm (UTC)Ooh, yes! Though from his description I can make a sound that I surmise might be what he's describing. It requires a lot of concentration, though, just as making clicks in languages that use them does.