Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Birkat HaChama
Rabbi Daniel Brenner has some pix of the blessing of the sun on April 8.
http://rabbidanielbrenner.blogspot.com/
This is referred to as Birkat HaChama.
"Blessing" is "Birkat"; note the consonants "b", "r", and "k". In Arabic, these give up "baraka" or even the personal name "Barak" - which makes it somewhat parallel to the name "Benedict" derived from Latin for blessed. (Remember Baruch Spinoza versus Benedict Spinoza in Philosophy 101?)
"Ha" is the definite article "the", and "Chama" is "sun".
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