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Q: What is meant by the ‘madness’ mentioned in Devarim 28:28?

Tom WDevarim 28:28: ‘Hashem will strike you with madness, blindness and dismay.’ (NJPS rendering) What is meant by madness here? Is it recommended that one rely on the modern discipline of psychiatry and its classification of ‘mental illnesses’ in order to know what this madness that the Torah refers ...

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Kazi bácsi
Kazi bácsi
3:16 PM
I posted this answer, and then I realised that "speaking name" might not be an English expression. How do you say when a character's name is hinting at her/his personality?
 
 
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Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
6:30 PM
@Kazibácsi I feel like there probably is a different English literary term for that, but it may be sufficient here to just go with "symbolic names"
Or "descriptive names"
 
 
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Kazi bácsi
Kazi bácsi
8:41 PM
@IsaacMoses I've found this one, but I suppose that it's for real people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
9:16 PM
@Kazibácsi that's probably it, and it's a great word! I encourage you to use it and (because it's uncommon) link to the definition
 

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