Do you believe in God? (2022 edition)
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It explains everything.
The feigned ignorance about the context of the name baal is transparent.
Do you though. Good luck with that.
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Koichos
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Sccit, I realize that you would be well aware of this, but I felt the point had to be emphasized for the benefit of the general readership.
Apart from its early use for a woman's 'husband' (for example: בַּעַל אִשָּׁה baʿal ʾishah, בַּעַל הָאִשָּׁה baʿal haʾishah in Sh'mοt 21:3, 21:22 respectively), even God Himself uses the term in the Messianic passage of Yirm'yahu Chapter 31 with respect to His role over Yissraʾel
Many of our Sages were similarly known:
etc. etc. etc.
etc. etc. etc.
Perhaps because of the idol. But בַּעַל Baʿal was just a euphemism; the actual name of the ancient deity that the Biblical writers referred to in Hebrew as בַּעַל Baʿal was really בֵּל Bél. They avoided using these idols' exact names even then, in accordance with Sh'mοt 23:13!
Apart from its early use for a woman's 'husband' (for example: בַּעַל אִשָּׁה baʿal ʾishah, בַּעַל הָאִשָּׁה baʿal haʾishah in Sh'mοt 21:3, 21:22 respectively), even God Himself uses the term in the Messianic passage of Yirm'yahu Chapter 31 with respect to His role over Yissraʾel
Many of our Sages were similarly known:
- Rav Méʾir Baʿal Hanés (the Fourth Generation Tannaʾ, floruit 3920 AM)
- Shimʿon Kayyaraʾ (the 'Baha"g' = Baʿal Halachοt G'dolοt)
- Yaʿakov ben ʾAshér (the 'Baʿal HaṬurim', after his halachic compendium ʾArbaʿah Ṭurim)
- Yissraʾel ben ʾElʿazar (the 'Besh"t' = Baʿal Shém Ṭov)
etc. etc. etc.
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The word בַּעַל baʿal also occurs in ʾIddish as a Hebrew loanword and is found in numerous ʾIddish compounds where it is shortened to בּעַל bal. The following is a typical ʾIddish sentence taken from a literary source (Yoysef Rabin, a highly-talented Sovyet ʾIddish writer)
בעל־מלאכה bal-m'luche is an ʾIddish compound derived from two Hebrew words: בַּעַל baʿal + מְלָאכָה m'laʾchah. Other examples are בעל־מלחמה bal-milchume ('soldier'; בַּעַל baʿal + מִלְחָמָה mil'hamah), בעל־עגלה bal-egule ('expressman'; בַּעַל baʿal + עֲגָלָה ʿagalah).
etc. etc. etc.
Koichos
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To be fair, Hebrew is a highly context-sensitive language and those with rather limited havanah (who are unable to read, write or speak Hebrew) cannot be expected to grasp all the subtle nuances of the language. Note also that the 'old testament' is written in any language other than Hebrew—so of course the only instances in which its readers will ever see the word Baʿal is in its context as a proper noun.
Yes, but אֲדוֹנִי ʾadoni ('sir!') is spelled with a hirik gadol (=man) and not a kamatz (=God), whereas בַּעַל has no such form. I understand your point, but Colicat's contention (albeit through plain ignorance of the Hebrew language) is with the term בַּעַל and its use outside of the ancient deity; though in fact בַּעַל is used in various contexts, the majority of which have nothing whatever to do with deities (idols).
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
Don't believe in some magic sky daddy who created and controls everything but do appreciate the Abrahamic religions. Definitely one of the craziest feats of current civilization is keeping those religions around in some form for thousands of years. Some of the stories are pretty good too. 
The question was and still remains: As a believer, why do you use the username whilst knowing the varying contexts?
The ignorance you and your flying monkeys are getting at have nothing to do with with my posts.
The bottom line is that you get a cheap thrill off of the conflation of the name.
It’s similar to throwing rocks and hiding your hands then enjoying watching others dispute who did it.
You and your flying monkeys may try to gaslight others. I know who is throwing stones.
Contradicting yourself. Do I know or am I ignorant? And not only am I ignorant but so are @Sccit and @Koichos.
@Koichos looks like he actually writes and reads Hebrew. Do you? If not you're the ignorant one out of the two mentioned.
But I know in your heart you want to apologize and seems like you're dealing with a spirit of double-mindedness and pride that's making it hard for you to apologize.
So I accept.
That would explain why you're trying to be dominant (masculine) and docile (feminine) at the same time as well that's called double-mindedness.
JPS Tanakh Psalm 119:113
113 I hate them that are of a double mind, But Thy law do I love.
James 1:8 kjv
8 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1 Peter 3:8 kjv
8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
But @Colicat I do want to sincerely say thank you. Dealing with you and quoting all these scriptures I just learned something new and insightful about myself and the scriptures.
HEBREW WAS MY FIRST LANGUAGE
I ALWAYS GET A KICK OUT OF POSTERS TRYING TO TELL ME WHAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE SAYING
I didn't know that. Gave out some rep to all three of ya'll. This interaction helped me reach a new level of understanding.HEBREW WAS MY FIRST LANGUAGE
I ALWAYS GET A KICK OUT OF POSTERS TRYING TO TELL ME WHAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE SAYING
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
“We’ll designed” children literally die of cancer.I’ve always been a believe of God (hence my username) because this universe is far too complex and well designed for it to just magically come out of nowhere and I had instances in my life where I felt God’s presences which helped stir me away from certain troubles and dangerous situations.
I know that most of TLR tend to lean more on the agnostic side but I figured I asked anyway.
THATS PART OF THE WELL DESIGN
WHY ARE U CALLING PEOPLE “MONKEYS” WHILE KNOWING THE VARYING CONTEXT?
Flying MonkeysI actually laughed. Point taken. The phrase flying monkeys has one context.
If you are offended, oh well.
The question you should ask is if God is offended by the usage of Baal, knowing the context.
But do you though.