My rabbi has a similar saying: Be a blessing. T'hiyeh brachah. A softer way to use the command is to use the future tense, I'd guess that's what your rabbi would say. T'hiyeh Torah.
Andrea > On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Ann Abrams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear safranim, > > We’re doing an exhibit for our senior rabbi, who’s retiring, and he did a > sermon years ago, called “Be Torah”—in the imperative, that had a big impact > on our congregation. The exhibit folks want to have that be a centerpiece > of one of their panels, and are interested in seeing what it would look like > in Hebrew. > > My best guess on this would be one of these, below, but I’d love to get > input from Hebrew scholars: > > Heh-yay Torah הייה תורה > Heh-vay Torah הוה תורה > > Thank you! > Ann > > > > Ann Abrams, Librarian > Dr. Arnold L. Segel Library Center > Temple Israel > 477 Longwood Avenue > Boston, MA 02215 > 617-566-3960 x116 > [email protected] > http://www.tisrael.org > > <image001.jpg> > > > Visit our library webpage at http://www.tisrael.org/library > > Check out our online catalog! > http://library.tisrael.org > > Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: > bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their > spices and myrrh. > And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden, and from prospect > to prospect. > > ~ Judah Ibn Tibbon, Medieval Spanish Jewish scholar > > > > > > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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