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Feb 14, 2018 at 4:55 | answer | added | Aaron | timeline score: 2 | |
Dec 24, 2017 at 6:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJudaism/status/944811292770164737 | ||
Dec 24, 2017 at 3:12 | comment | added | Mauro Braunstein | The Wikipedia page you linked has the explanations of the names. Is that not what you're asking? There's mostly common sense -- the karnei farah look like cow horns; the kadma is at the beginning, etc. Most of the names are Aramaic because the people who came up with them spoke Aramaic. | |
Dec 24, 2017 at 2:08 | comment | added | Oliver | Are you asking about the debated passage in Nedarim (37b)? | |
Dec 24, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Why would there be an origin for these names? Is there an origin for the names of the letters? Names are just conventions. | |
Dec 24, 2017 at 0:58 | history | asked | rikitikitembo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |