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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:59 pm
by Harriet
Congratulations.
Soul to life to earth.
Blessings ~
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:19 am
by ForYourSmile
Congratulations!
For sure the son will be so beautiful as the dad and the grand dad.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:54 pm
by Sophia
Our Man is a Grand Dad! What great news! I send all my love and best wishes to the whole family.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:40 pm
by Tchocolatl
Congratulation and welcome to the little one.
Yep FyS, and probably with the gift of a golden voice too. In his time.
While waiting for the miracle to happen:

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:56 pm
by dick
Learned from Esther yesterday that after much research by Grand Dad, they have selected Asher as the boy's Hebrew name.
Big day today for the family!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:02 am
by lizzytysh
. . . after much research by Grand Dad . . . Asher as the boy's Hebrew name.
Yes, big day, indeed. I wasn't aware of the ceremony related to his naming, either. Very intriguing. Perhaps, one day, Leonard will share with 'us' [himself or through an interviewer or in some of his writing] what the essential elements he was looking for that Asher's name fulfills. Asher Cohen is a stunning name... both gentle and strong.
Thanks for this very special information, Esther and Dick.
~ Lizzy
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:08 am
by Tchocolatl
'Asher
aw-share'
from ''ashar' (833), happy; Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory; also a place in Palestine:--Asher
Source :
http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebibl ... TRHEB8.htm
Happy, at last (but not the least).
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Now.
Warning, the content of this part of the post and links needs the supervision of children by adults. Thank you.
Hebrew is a so ancient religion. It has its roots so deep in the History of Mankind. Just straight into the more ancient religions of the Earth.
"The first notion of a supreme creator among early peoples was the great and glorious sun, giving light and heat and life; all early peoples, including the Hebrews, worshipped the sun, the beautiful, visible, shining agency of creation, as they did to the end, and as some primitive peoples do to this day.
Life was a wonderful thing to them, and creation the great miracle. Man discovered in himself the power to reproduce this miracle of creation, to recreate life; and the organ of procreation became from the earliest times an object of veneration and of worship, as the human representative of the divine Creator and Life-giver."
(...)
"We have many early Biblical illustrations of this ancient, Hebraic, Semitic, universal phallic worship. All the ancient monuments, as well as Hebrew Scripture, testify to the same customs. In Genesis, of the reputed sons of Shem, son of Noah, one was Asshur (Gen. 10: 22 ). This phallic name signifies, more or less, happy, fortunate, upright, erect -- unus cui membrum erectus est, vel fascinum ipsum. Asshur went forth, we are told, out of that land, "and builded Nineveh," and founded the great kingdom of Assyria, which perpetuates his name, for its name in Assyrian, and in the Bible, is Asshur. Asshur, or Asher, as the triune God was called in their mythology, became deified; he represented the virile agency of creation, and was the special divinity of the Assyrians. His divine consort, Ishtar or Ashtoreth, was the deified personification of the female principle of creation. The idolic symbol under which they were worshipped was the Asherah, representing the creative union of Bel, or Baal, and Ashtoreth, and typifying "happiness."
Source : http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Old%20Testame ... 0Idols.htm
"In the foregoing we have seen how the eroto-religious feeling of antiquity deified the male members of the body under Asher, Ann, and Hea."
Source :
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/asw/asw02.htm
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:12 am
by st theresa
Congratulations to the parents, the grandparents and welcome to James Adams. (Asher) I can only imagine the look on his little face when grampa starts to sing to him.

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:44 am
by lightning
Wishing you hours of untold Bris.
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:25 am
by A.Borissenko
Wonderful News!
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:53 am
by lightning
"In the foregoing we have seen how the eroto-religious feeling of antiquity deified the male members of the body under Asher, Ann, and Hea."
Is ritual genital mutilation included in deifying the male members of the body?
our man is a grand dad
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:37 am
by philo
...... a zayda at last! mazeltov x
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:36 am
by dick
More news.....
the lad's English name is Cassius Lyon
(Lyon Cohen is also the name of Leonard and Esther's grandfather.)
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:47 am
by lizzytysh
Well, thank you for
that news, Dick

. I'm glad to see Leonard and Esther's revered grandfather's name carried on through his great-great grandson. I wonder which name he'll choose to be called by when he's able to make that choice for himself and which name his family will use until he reaches that age [whatever that age may be... it began with me when I turned 18]. Do you have any idea what went into their choice of Cassius?
~ Lizzy
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:05 am
by dick
lizzytysh wrote: Do you have any idea what went into their choice of Cassius?
~ Lizzy
Nope