Is There an Echo in Here? Есть ли Эхо Здесь?..

 
«Is There an Echo in Here?» (1)
Is there a voice of my soul?
And where's the fast gazing deer?
And when will we light fire coal?..

Why does the son's vioce keep  silence?..
Why can't the daughter's  stop wail?
And once we'll return to the island
Which will never be the soul's jail...

«Is There an Echo in Here?»

benkol
29.06.2014


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(2) «У голоса Бога в Синае не было эха - ибо он заполнял весь мир и не было ничего, с чем бы он столкнулся, чтобы вернулся назад...»


ben-kol* - the son of a voice** - сын голоса*** - бен-коль*
bet-kol* - the daughter of a voice** - дочь голоса*** - бет-коль*

*древний иврит, Hebrew
** английский яз
*** русский яз.


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(1) «Is There an Echo in Here?
And Other Questions About a Bat-Kol
By Philologos
The roughly 2,000-year-old Hebrew word bat-kol is not found in the Bible, and first appears in early rabbinic literature. Translatable literally as “the daughter of a voice,” it can mean one of two things.
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Forward reader Barry Seidel of Newark, Del., asks about the origin of the Hebrew expression bat-kol and wonders “how interesting and valuable the concept has been to Jewish thought.”
Bat-kol is indeed a unique Hebrew expression that has no real equivalent in any other language that I know of. Literally the “daughter of a voice,” it goes back to early rabbinic literature, in which it has two meanings. One is that of an echo. We find this, for example, in an ancient midrash on a verse in Deuteronomy that describes the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai: “These words the Lord spoke unto all your assembly at the mount… with a great voice and He added no more.”
The midrash reads: “What is the meaning of ‘He added no more’? When a man speaks to his friend, his voice has a bat-kol. But the voice that went forth from the Holy One Blessed Be He had no bat-kol.”

(2) God’s voice at Sinai, in other words, had no echo, presumably because, since it filled the whole world, it had nothing to bounce back from.

The second meaning of bat-kol is the unusual one. It is of a voice that may resemble an echo in its mysteriousness, elusiveness or eeriness, but that is not an echo at all. Rather, as the great Hebrew lexicographer Eliezer Ben-Yehuda defined it in his 16-volume dictionary, it is “A voice that is heard as though out of nowhere, so that it is impossible to know whence or from whom it comes… especially a supernatural voice that may reveal God’s will.”
A bat-kol, however, is not the voice of God Himself. Only prophets can hear that voice, whereas a bat-kol can be heard by anyone (even, in one rabbinic story, by the wicked Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian destroyer of the Temple). Generally, though, it speaks to people of merit. As the talmudic tractate of Yoma puts it: “After the death of the last of the prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, the holy spirit departed from Israel. Still, the bat-kol continued to be resorted to.” Resorted to by whom? This is never very clear.»




Иллюстрации:
 Световое эхо от V838 Единорога
26.11.2005
http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/1209782
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Вирши Эхо
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