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Are Gentiles allowed to live in The Land of Israel ?
Dexter:
--- Quote from: kahaneloyalist on December 26, 2007, 09:34:09 AM ---Avdut can mean slavery or service depending on the context, when the Jews were in Egypt it was slavery, for the Goyim living in Israel its service.
Also JDL building the Beit HaMikdash was a strictly Jewish project, Goyim werent even allowed to be involved
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Could you provide a source for that claim ? I know Hebrew very well and the word doesn't mean slavery or service depending on the context, it means slavery only.
Rambam says clearly to make the gentiles slaves after you win tham.
jdl4ever:
Dexter, you are not familiar with Biblical Hebrew. Avodah is used for service frequently in the Torah. See Bamidbar Korach 18:6-7 and Bamidbar Bahalotcha 8:24-25.
Dexter:
--- Quote from: jdl4ever on December 26, 2007, 12:46:36 PM ---Dexter, you are not familiar with Biblical Hebrew. Avodah is used for service frequently in the Torah. See Bamidbar Korach 18:6-7 and Bamidbar Bahalotcha 8:24-25.
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I am very familiar with Biblical Hebrew, there are only few words from the acient/Biblical Hebrew that have diffrent meaning in moderen Hebrew (e.g. Goyim, Goyim means in Biblical Hebrew "Nations" and in Moderen/Chazal's one it means "non-Jews"), Avadim is not one of tham.
There is a diffrent between Avoda and Avdut, Ovdim and Avadim etc'. Avoda means worship/work and avdut means slavery, Avadim means slaves. The words sounds samilliar but they have diffrences by meanings.
newman:
Dexter, hebrew is a very consice language. It has less than half the words English has. A lot depends on context. Eg: Merkeva means chariot but also tank depending on context.
Dexter:
--- Quote from: newman on December 26, 2007, 10:16:27 PM ---Dexter, hebrew is a very consice language. It has less than half the words English has. A lot depends on context. Eg: Merkeva means chariot but also tank depending on context.
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As I said, Slavery is not one this words.
Merkava is a name of a tank after a chariot and it doesn't mean Tank, "tanks" we just say "tankim" and Tank we say "Tank" (Ta-nk, not Te-nk).
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