lien
noun
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: The story tells that Ben Sira wanted to study Sefer Yetzirah and a heavenly voice said he could not do it alone, so a companion joined him. Tradition reads this as meaning that deep mysteries are best studied with a partner.
Meaning
A mistaken printing of a name or word in an old scanned book; here it stands for "Rabbi" or a name such as "Ben" before Sira. tree →
Examples
- "lien Sira wanted to study the Sefer Yetzira, when a heav- enly voice came out and snid: 'Thou canst nut do it aloin-'. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «lien» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «lien» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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