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At one point in Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox by Shaul Behr, a policeman gets Rabbi White's first name wrong and refers to him as Tzvi rather than Tuvia. Wondering whether this were a different form of Tuvia or an entirely different name, I looked it up. It's a different name, meaning "gazelle" in Hebrew. A few weeks ago I posted in "The antelope, both fierce and fell" about a character whose name is a homophone of the Chinese word for "gazelle," so that got my attention. The Wikipedia article on the name Zvi (Tzvi being an alternate transliteration) mentions that "It is sometimes paired with Hirsch, the German and Yiddish word for 'deer', in a bilingual pleonasm."
Clicking for the article on bilingual pleonasms, I discovered that it is a fairly common pattern in Yiddish names to compound a Hebrew animal word with its German synonym. Tzvi-Hirsch was the second example listed; the first was Dov-Ber, with dov being the Hebrew for "bear." This Hebrew word has come up once before, in "St. Christopher, Deseret, and -- bear with me, it's all connected" (2021), where it served to link Jonah ("dove" in Hebrew) with the bear (dov in Hebrew). This onomastic research was occasioned by a book written by a Jew named Behr, which is a further sync.
Shortly after reading about the name Dov-Ber, I turned to the Book of Isaiah, which I have been reading. I had finished Chapter 58 last night, so I picked up where I had left off. Just a few verses in, I found this:
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us (Isa. 59:11).
Incidentally, 貝爾熊 -- bèi'ěr-xióng, a transliteration of the English word bear compounded with the Chinese word for "bear" -- is fairly common in Chinese, though not as a personal name.
5 comments:
Heh, I'm reminded of the bear-related dream (and etc) that I relayed in email on October 15. (I now realise it mightn't be entirely clear how I reached the conclusion it related to Jesus, but I'll explain that soon enough.)
William,
Regarding your previous post :Shaul Behr's proposed solution,
and in my humble opinion, the paranormal
is simply an experience sourced from the soul.
To attempt to dissect it and analyze it is futile.
Which would explain, at least to me, why
there are so many different and opposing opinions,
including my own.
I believe that humans can control the Sacred Science
knowledge via Black Magic using the physical hands,
mind and ego yes I think that is possible,
but magic from the ego is not the same thing
as the Sacred Science knowledge
from the soul which begs the questions;
How can someone like me see 5 years or 20 years
into the future?
How can someone like the Past Life Reader
I went to in 1974 see centuries into the past
and then tell me Exactly about a recurring
dream I had about levitation which started
at 10 years old ?
I did not know the reader, nor did he know me.
I would love for someone to share with me 'logically'
their opinion of not only those questions above
but also the many other paranormal
experiences I've had over 70 years. What I've shared
with you on this blog, is just a tiny amount of my
paranormal experiences.
As I've previously shared, I believe that free will
is only possible through the soul which transcends
the illusion of this duality planet.
And no, I don't believe the illusion
is a "computer simulation".
Because yes , the trees are real, the soil, ocean and sky is
real as well as us humans because in this duality
dimension everything is in matter and anything in
in matter can be manipulated and controlled
and therein lies the illusion.
Except the soul. Although 'housed
and trapped' in the matter
of the physical body, the soul transcends the illusion
of matter every night in REM.
Case in point: my antique barn experience.
Because of clairaudience, I 'knew' a very
probable future of what was going to happen
to me ( in that case a 5 second probable future)
and I was able to change course, immediately.
In my humble, that's free will.
The barn man's future for me was much
different from mine and I had the free will
to change both.
My point being
other people can change our future.
Anything in matter can be changed.
Another example was my paranormal
experience and premonition dream in 1990
which came tragically true in 1995.
So again, what's really real?
As I've
shared many times, I believe that there
exist a parallel universe.
Regarding this post. Isn't the dove not only symbolic
of the spirit but also as messengers?
The Language of the Birds is the Universal Language
and spoken in our REM sleep every night.
All of the answers are inside of us.
It's as simple as that.
Our challenge is to remember the language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols
I'm obviously drawn to the Elvish homonyms, with Bear (Ber) and Deer (Dir) having come up before, both referring to Men in some fashion. When I read this post, my attention was drawn to Gazelle.
In your earlier Nov. 5 post on mentioning Gazelle/ Antelope, you had invoked the symbolism of Joseph. You hadn't called out then, but I couldn't be bothered to call out then, the additional connection to Lingyang. You may remember my dream with the tablet message that read "I like Ling", which I assumed was a message from John. Not knowing anything about Chinese characters or names, because of the dream I saw your rending of Lingyang as Ling Yang.
But getting back to Gazelle, I decided to investigate it as an Elvish homophone, for whatever reason. The "El" at the ending of the word made me think going into it that I would find something. The Elvish homophone would be Gas-el, which would mean "Hole Star". That seemed relevant given that one of the symbols/ analogies of Joseph's Rose Stone is a Black Hole, or quite literally a star that has been turned into a hole - a hole star.
Gazelle also suggests Gazelem, the name of either a stone or a seer in the Book of Mormon. Corbin Volluz has connected Gazelem with the "light gazelle stone" in one of the Nag Hammadi texts.
https://rationalfaiths.com/a-book-of-mormon-mystery/
The connection with Gazelem makes sense.
Rounding off strange, random Elvish connections, we already have Gas-el meaning "Hole Star". The suffix -em can mean several things here, but one stood out because of how I phrased the above mention of the Black Hole/ Hole Star reference.
I wrote the Black Hole image was a symbol or analogy of Joseph's Stone. One definition of symbol, and how I intended it, is "standing for or representing something". The word "represent" is from the French word, representer, which Etymonline has meaning "present, show, portray".
So, naturally, the meaning of "Em" which stood out to me is the one which means "to depict, portray", the same meaning of a symbol or something that represents something else. In other words, in this random Elvish game, Gas-el-em means "hole star to portray", or said in another way, "Black Hole Symbol".
Just a name-game, so doesn't have to mean anything, but was fun to piece together.
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