abomasum
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Sefer Yetzirah it is one of the twelve organs of the body, matched with the letter Tzadi, Aquarius and the month Shevat.
Interpretation. The text matches twelve "leaders" in the body to twelve letters, months and signs. Commentators found the organ names hard to identify.
Meaning
The fourth stomach of an animal such as a cow or sheep that chews the cud. tree →
Examples
- He made the letter Tzadi reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Aquarius in the World, and Shevat in the Year, and the abomasum in the Person. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw. [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
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