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    Biblically speaking: “Sex is a right of marriage“

    Numbers 21:10 "he shall not diminish her sustenance, her clothing, or her marital relations." Apparently it is a right.
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    thanx!

    thanx!
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    Aryeh - how to pronounce

    the heb. vowels are patach and tzeirei so the sephardic pronunciation would be ar-yeh and the ashkenazic pronunciation would be ar-yey
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    Aryeh - how to pronounce

    arr-yey
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    Jay, What does "Elohim" mean?

    And please do elaborate on what knowledge refutes this possibility
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    Jay, What does "Elohim" mean?

    I have not read the dissertation, but in the passage you quoted every single example fits with my understanding of what Maimonides is saying - they all come from verbs. That is, except for betulim, but that is because betulim always denotes two things, that she is physically a virgin, and that...
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    Jay, What does "Elohim" mean?

    Maimonides writes in the Guide (1:2) that Elohim is a homonym that denotes God, angels, judges, and the rulers of countries. As to why the plural form is used when signifying God: in the passage I quoted Maimonides suddenly digresses to explain that panim, the Hebrew equivalent of face, is...
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