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rumen

noun

«rumen» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah lists it among the body's twelve leaders and links it with the letter Ayin and the month of Tevet, though commentators find this puzzling.

Meaning

The rumen is the first and largest stomach of a cow, sheep or goat, where swallowed food is first stored and softened. tree →

Examples

  • He made the letter ʽAyin reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Capricorn in the World, and Tevet in the Year, and the rumen 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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