I don't profess to know kabbalah in the slightest, but from the little bit that I have gleened from various sources, its very interesting the amount that is already proliferated throughout various societies. Somehow societies seem to just pick up on things in the air simply because it feels or sounds right --but its so inline with kabbalah! For example:
THE COLOR RED
One major similarity is how kabbalah talks about the color red. Red is the color that represents Gevurah - strength, restrain, harshness. And, its interesting that in many countries, the color red is used for STOP signs (restrain), poisonous notices(strength), or other alarming things (harshness).
THE NUMBER FOUR
Another similarity is how God's ineffable name (well, one of them anyway) is written with four letters. At the same time, many foundational things are also listed in fours: DNA is divided into four parts (adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine); The four elements are known throughout various societies-fire, water, wind, dust; the four blood types; four seasons (? that may be a stretch.)
THE WORD "NIGEY"
Now this is a difficult one. When I first learned about this word, it sounded too much like another "n" word that I knew from back in America. Nigey means the children who are born from spilled seed -whether its from a man with another man's wife, or some other "illegal" means (simply not being married is not one of those "illegal" means), they always produce children -physical or not. The children can be just spirits with no particular purpose in the world and so, with nothing else to do, they latch on to the father and 'encourage' him to continue this lifestyle so as to produce more children like them (when the man tries to mend his ways, he gets bombarded with depression, possibly compulsiveness, or other psychological worries).
Some may refer to these as subhumans. But I wonder, if some people -in an attempt to degrade others- try to convince themselves that a group is subhuman. And I wonder, if just by whatever's in the air, they come up with the "n" word that is very much similar to Nigey? I totally don't agree with them and I know that they use it as a ploy for their own minds- to justify their maltreatment of others.
But I do fear when others begin to use it on their own selves. Even if its in an attempt to show how ineffective that word is at hurting them, I still find it disturbing to place such a "crown" upon one's head.
Could those two n-words be related? Can they be one and the same? Can calling oneself such an "n" word subconsciously lead a society towards a world of sexual promiscuity, gang rape, baby daddys, etc?
At any rate, its all quite interesting to me the things that I read compared to how society just seem to 'know' things. Sooner or later, we will all be on the same page with whatever the absolute truth is.
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that is a good question - but im bnot that tight on my latin
I don't like that word! and I don't like that products of spilled-seed are described in that way either...hmmph!
I've never heard that word. (But then, I have never studied Kabbalah.) Can you spell it out for me in Hebrew? I may take a look at Ernest Klein's dictionary for information about its etymology.
The word nig'e (or nig'ei) is spelled nun-gimel-ayin-yod. It's the semichut (conjunctive) form for "negaim shel", meaning plagues of [men]. The full phrase is "nig'e bnei adam, which is found in the Zohar.
I once heard some Black Israelites use the masc. form of the Hebrew word נגע to describe the state of certain blacks in the US. I.e. those who don't realize they are lost Hebrews. I don't much go for generalizations in that way, but to each their own.
One thing I did find when looking up the word Niger, which the river and the country in West Africa are named. Niger was also a last name of some famous Europeans. I will have ot look them up.
The origin of the river's name remains unclear. What is clear is that "Niger" was an appellation applied in the Mediterranean world from at least the Classical era, when knowledge of the area by Europeans was slightly better than fable. A careful study of Classical writings on the interior of the Sahara begins with Ptolemy, who mentions two rivers in the desert: the "Gir" and farther south, the "Ni-Gir". The first has been since identified as the Wadi Ghir on the north western edge of the Tuat, along the borders of modern Morocco and Algeria.[7] This would likely as been as far as Ptolemy would have consistent records. The Ni-Ger was likely speculation, although the name stuck as that of a river south of the Mediterranean's "known world". Suetonius reports Romans traveling to the "Ger", although in reporting any river's name derived from a Berber language, in which "gher" means "watercourse", confusion could easily arise.
Pliny connected these two rivers as one long watercourse which flowed (via lakes and underground sections) into the Nile [9], a notion which persisted in the Arab and European worlds -- and further added the Senegal River as the "Ger" -- until the 19th century. The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of "Aethiopia" (by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers), but because the Nile flooded every summer. In Europe and Western Asia, floods are expected in the Spring, following snow melt. Classical authors explained the summer flood by calculating the time it took for flood waters to move down a river, and calculating how long the Nile must have been for the waters to travel from a mountain range in the spring. Of course, the cycle of the Nile is based on tropical rain patterns, not snow melt, something unknown to the Classical Mediterranean world. Through the descriptions of Leo Africanus and even Ibn Battuta - despite his visit to the river -- the myth connecting the Niger to the Nile persisted.
Hey Torrance - I wonder if I'll ever know the answer.
Tania - Yeah, I hear you! The good news is that even they can change their fate.
Kylopod - I see Micha and Ehav already wrote it.
Ehav - that is interesting. But did the Heb. Isrealites have to start calling others that name? sigh. Is that what one does with knowledge?
Hey Miriam,
It wasn't that they were name calling so to speak. Their leader who was making the point was trying to make a Remez so to speak between the behavior of certain blacks who don't supposedly realize they are "Hebrew Israelites" and the mentions in the Torah of נגע. So he was stating how the N-word, as some blacks pronounce it is similar to נגע in the Torah, in terms of skin disease derived from one's action of speech. So the word that said people have chosen to describe themselves may have a spiritual connection to the meaning of the word, rather that the word have a connection to them.
I told him that I felt he was stretching it a bit, especially since there is no proof that all African Americans are descendants of Jews/Israelites etc or whatever other termed he wanted to use. I didn't want to push the issue because I was a guest in their synagogue, nor did it matter that much to me either way.
I am a believer that a person is what they say they are. Especially, since people often form their actions around what ever title they have chosen for themselves.
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