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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2007-03-05 08:09 pm

Source Material Query

I was talking to [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim recently and remembered a rabbinic text using a pun about סערה and שערה and then went back through my assorted source sheets from the shiurim where I presumed I had encountered it, and couldn't find it. It was based on a verse from Job about G-d's presence in "the storm" and punning off of that and how much that word sounds like the word for hair as a reason of sorts for hair-covering. Anyone happen to know where that is?

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2007-03-06 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
There's a medrosh somewhere or other, based on a verse that says that God hangs the universe on top of a סערה. This medrosh says that God hangs the globe from a mere hair (rather than that he suspends the world over a whirlwind).

[identity profile] hotshot2000.livejournal.com 2007-03-06 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hagigah 12b. But I don't think that's DN's source.

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2007-03-07 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, but yeah- no, not what I'm looking for.