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On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:55 PM, John Cowan wrote:
Steg Belsky scripsit:"Overseas" doesn't count?It's only in relatively recent times that foreigners all lived overseas (from the perspective of an anglophone in England).In Hebrew there's Ha'aretz ('the land') and Hhutz La'aretz ('out of theland').
The latter sounds suspiciously like a calque on "Ausland". John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Don't be so suspicious! ;-)The variant Hhutza La'aretz, with extra /a/, is attested at least as far back as the Mishna (first published codification of the Oral Tradition), c.200CE.
Order Tahara (Purity), Tractate Para (Cow), Chapter 2, Rule 1:"Rabbi Eli`ezer says, a pregnant cow is valid for a _Hhatat_ offering; but the other sages declare it invalid. Rabbi Eli`ezer says, [for this offering] it can not be acquired from a Non-Jew; but the other sages declare it valid. And not only that, but all communal and individual offerings can come from The Land or from Outside The Land (_hhutza la'aretz_), and can be [if they are grain offerings] from new or old grain - except for the _`Omer_ and the Two Loaves, which can only be made of new grain from The Land."
-Stephen (Steg)
"jealousy, selfishness, and being a self-hating human
can cause early death."
~ [4ibbi: j@hoSua3] (rough translation)