Shalom, whats the meaning of the name Asher? Does it mean "happy" as I have read?
Thank you very much David Sevilla Spain. Isaac, During a brief speech at my son's brit mila on Taanit Esther 2003 at the Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side, I raised that very issue: the distinct possibility (and I suspect probability) that Asher was the masculine counterpart of Canaanite Ashera (Ashtoret/Ishtar/Esther). It's certainly interesting that the traditional symbol of the Tribe of Asher is a tree. What made it especially fun is that members of my very frum family in the pews stared at me aghast as if I'd just landed from Mars. Uzi Silber _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
