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At 30:00-30:33, I hear it as "Harcheik Mishachei, Ra".  Can someone help me with the correct Hebrew translation/English transliteration?  

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I was leisurely studying Jewish history through youtube and I encountered this video about the Baal Shem Tov.  In this video (at time 30:00-30:33), a teaching of the Baal Shem Tov spoke to my heart.  I'd been avoiding people because of the ideology of staying away from negative people. It's somewhat a common thinking nowadays and it was surprising it was in a mishnah of Pirke Avot "separate yourself from a bad neighbor". But the Baal Shem Tov, contradicts this saying the comma was misplaced and the correct meaning is: "If you distance yourself from a neighbor, that's a bad thing."

I'm not a Hebrew speaker but I am familiar with the alphabet and some words, and can read and write Hebrew.  However, I am not able to figure out the Hebrew of what the Baal Shem Tov said.  I like to know the original Hebrew reference in the Pirke Avot and study more about it.  In the video, I hear it as "Harkeych Mishachei, Ra".  Can someone help me with the correct Hebrew translation/transliteration?  

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I pray that we become a people who looks upon Goldstein, Kahane and Kach and insists: never again.

I'm usually not a huge fan of fireworks displays. . . But this is 64 seconds of the best I've ever seen in my life.

My name is Aryeh, I was on the old version as Aryeh Jay.

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I will keep an eye on the forum, but typing with one hand, my left and I am right handed, is laborious so I wil be posting only if something really really important appears to need my input. Even then I expect to be brief.

Hello all,

I am Ajay of Hindu and Indian origin. 


I have come across some interesting observations which depict an interesting correlation between God and light....


In Hinduism, the Vedas and Hindu scriptures considers the Shivalinga as representing a cosmic pillar of light. The Dharmic monotheistic sect the Prajapita Brahmakumaris consider God to be a point of light.


In Islam, Allah has 100 name's, and one of them is Alnoor ( the Light).

“God is light,” says 1 John 1:5, in the Bible in Christianity.

In Judaism, Psalm 76:4 says of God, “You are radiant with light.”

So this correlation between God and light, is a common denominator in these four major world religions.

Imo, the fire worship in Zoroastrianism may be illustrating this correlation between God (Ahura Mazda ) and light as well, light being emitted by the fire.

If you find any further proofs or evidences in this regard, especially in Judaism, please do share it here.

Thanking you all in advance...

Ajay.

I have a question about a Hebrew word that I'm pretty sure someone here can answer for me.
 
Can the feminine Hebrew word for "pure" (טהורה) also be spelled: טהרה
 
That's without the vav?

I was raised in a catholic family, and have lived most of my life in an LDS (Church of the false god, of the new age, self proclaimed righteous people) community.  I have tried to reach Jesus.  He makes no sense.  I have tried to reach God without Jesus (in the way), and I find much, all making perfect if not nearly perfect sense.  I have read some of both the KJV old and new testaments and have done some online research.   This is one conclusion of mine:
1. Jesus is guilty of vain speech.
http://doctrine.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/25verilies.html
 He preaches against it, and hypocrisy Matthew 6:7
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. "And when praying, do not use needless repetitions as the Gentiles do, for they expect to be listened to because of their multitude of words.
So thus, he is not perfect, or "free of sin".
2. The name Christ is false
This is my analogy:
Yeshu -> Yeshua -> Joshua -> Jesus -> Jesus Christ -> Christ (completely false/blasphemous against the Truth, name)

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To give a Chai - Hebrew for LIFE - means to give a financial gift that is some multiple of !8 (dollars, shekels, latkes, whatever). It comes from the fact that Chai in Hebrew is חי where the yod has a numeric value of ten and the het has the numeric value of eight. It turns out that every even number with the digital root of 9 is a chai.

Huh?

Wikipedia describes digital root as follows:

Quote:The digital root (also repeated digital sum) of a non-negative integer is the (single digit) value obtained by an iterative process of summing digits, on each iteration using the result from the previous iteration to compute a digit sum. The process continues until a single-digit number is reached.