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4:1-But Moses spoke up and said, \u201cWhat if they do not believe me “lo yaaminu li<\/em>” and do not listen to me, but say: The LORD did not appear to you?\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Also in 5, 8, 9 and finally in 31: \u201cAaron repeated all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people, and the people were convinced “vayeamen ha’am.<\/em>“\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The root \u05d0-\u05de-\u05e0, \u201caleph-m-n<\/em>\u201d appears no less than 5 times in this chapter, including in the very first and last verses. This root, in its manifestation here in forms of the verb \u201cma\u2019amin<\/em>\u201d means “believe, trust, be devoted to or have confidence in.” Hebrew distinguishes between \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05dc- <\/span>ma-amin l<\/span><\/em>–<\/span><\/i> which is to “believe” the veracity of something, versus \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05d1- <\/span>ma-amin b<\/span><\/em>–<\/span><\/i>, which means to “believe <\/span>in<\/span><\/em>” or trust the existence of something. The first affirms that someone, such as Moses here, is telling you the truth. <\/span><\/p>\n

The second is for questions regarding, say, belief in God. The word for religious faith is \u05d0\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 <\/span>emunah<\/span><\/em>. And what I believe – my ‘credo’ (Latin for “I believe”), in Hebrew is my \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df “<\/span>ani ma-amin<\/span><\/em>,” literally my “I-believe.” (The word \u05d0\u05de\u05df <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em> (pronounced ah-m\u00e9n), from this root, is used in over a thousand languages as an affirmation, be it of a blessing or a statement.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the word used in this chapter (v. 23) for the \u201cstubborn refusal\u201d to believe is \u201cvatema’en<\/em>\u201d \u2013 \u05d5\u05ea\u05de\u05d0\u05df – the same letters as the root for \u201cbelieve\u201d just in a different order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Closely related to \u201cemunah<\/em>\u201d is the very fundamental Hebrew word \u05d0\u05de\u05ea <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, “truth”. The root letter “n” fell off at some point. Here the word is the same, whether one is talking about God’s truth, or just not fibbing. Regarding the divine sort, \u05d0\u05de\u05ea, <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, “truth,” is said to be God’s seal. It is also the seal of Brandeis University (copycats).<\/span><\/p>\n

While usually translated “truth” (or “true” \u2013 it can be a noun or an adjective), its derivation from the same root as \u05d0\u05de\u05df, <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em>, alludes to the larger senses of “firm, steadfast, enduring, trustworthy, faithful, reliable.” This may be much closer to the original mark than the modern definition of true, meaning that which is accurate or factual, since declarations of truth regarding God, Torah or prophesy, were less an argument about existence, and more about significance or meaning. Belief in the truth of something was not a philosophical statement about the veracity of a claim of fact, but a moral and existential claim about its trustworthiness and faithfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u05d0\u05de\u05ea, <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, may be a little more well known in the English speaking word in its Yiddish pronunciation, <\/span>emmes<\/span><\/em>. “The emmes-truth” used to be slang for “the real McCoy,” a “cross-your-heart” kind of truth. For instance in the 1976 movie <\/span>Network<\/span><\/i> \u2013 there was a section of the news introduced as: “It’s Jim Webbing and his It’s-the-Emmes-Truth Department.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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