When a saying is assigned to a named authority, the saying may be in Hebrew or in Aramaic, and the same named authority may be given sayings in both languages – even within the same sentence. But the editorial and conceptual infrastructure of the document comes to expression only in Aramaic...
Thus it is clear that the meaning ‘helper’ is basic to the Hebrew word עזר, and this meaning is not, as Freedman suggests, a later meaning derived from the merger of two earlier meanings.” [3] Here are the three verses where ezer refers to people helping or failing to help...
Judaism is largely a religion of interpretations, not of literalism. We have many sayings about the space between the words being important – in fact, all our midrashim are, in some sense, about the space between the words. That’s where interpretation happens. Mozart said that “the music ...