The fragment from book Chaim ben Attar «Or HaChaim» was first printed at Venice in 1742. The treatise is a commentary on the Pentateuch (1922LeeserI), was written between about 1718-1742 in Sale (Morroco) - Livorno (Italy) [sefaria.org]. Translator into English is the outstanding rabbinic scholar Eliyahu Munk. The author mentions damage to the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) of man, calling this formation “גיד הנשה” (gid ha-nashe).
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[Heb]
אור החיים על בראשית
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Original source: www.sefaria.org |
Translation
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[Eng]
The
Light of Life. Genesis 32
Verse 33
על כן לא יאכלו בני ישראל את גיד הנשה. This is why
the children of Israel do not eat the disjointed sinew, etc. This sinew was
dislocated from its holy origin and became subject to dominance by the קליפה ["external forces" in the scheme of the emanations,
Ed.]. G'd forbade anything which has thus become defiled wherever it appears.
There is a mystical element in this. This sinew does not have a taste, an
allusion to its originating in the "external forces." The reason is
that it had been uprooted from a holier source. [original source: www.urimpublications.com,
license: CC-BY]
External links
Chayim ben Attar. Or HaChayim:
Commentary on the Torah. Trans. Eliyahu Munk. Vol. 1. Lambda Publishers,
Inc., 1998. [www.urimpublications.com]
Authors &
Affiliations
Hayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar (Chaim
ibn Attar, Chayim ben Attar) rabbi, Torah commentator. He lived
between about 1696-1743 years in the Morocco Italy and Land of Israel. [wikipedia.org]
Eliyahu
Munk (1900–1981) was a German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar. [wikipedia.org]
Keywords
synonyms, ligamentum
capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, Bible, anatomy,
Torah, animals, damage
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