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The general designation for winged animals is "'of" (, Hosea ix. 11; Isa. xvi. 2) or "'of kanaf" (, Gen. i. 21), "ẓippor" (, Gen. xv. 10), or "ẓippor kanaf" (, Deut. iv. 17; Ps. cxlviii. 10), or "ba'al kanaf" (, Prov. i. 17). The expression "ẓippor," however, denotes an individual bird in distinction from "'of," the generic term.
8 cze 2015 · Avian metaphors, first and foremost, are common in Jewish scriptures and folklore. Jeremiah 17:11, for example, claims that folks who are greedy and dishonest are like certain birds, such as partridges, hatching eggs not their own. In several instances, too, the Israelites are compared to birds.
9 lis 2022 · Jews have a long tradition of using birds to represent different aspects of the human experience, and they often use bird imagery to teach moral lessons. The use of birds in Jewish scriptures and folklore is well-known.
Ideas about birds extend beyond the Torah (and Talmud), and we can trace such ideas into Jewish mystical traditions (primarily of the 16th century) and early Hasidic teaching. Torah Educator Shoshanah Weiss summarizes the mystical representations of birds as follows:
Called in the Talmud "the king of the beasts" (Ḥag. 13b), the lion has many Hebrew names: אַרְיֵה (aryeh) or אֲרִי (ari), and לָבִיא (lavi) fem. לְבִיאָה (levi'ah), both of which are used for e lion in general, כְּפִיר (kefir), usually a young lion,
The owl's toes, divided into two in front and two behind, assist it in seizing its prey. The Bible contains at least 11 names of owls. Of these the tinshemet, ka'at, kos, yanshuf, shalakh, and bat ya'anah are mentioned in the lists of unclean birds in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
It is mentioned first of the unclean birds enumerated in the Torah, in deference to the eagle's "royal" standing (Lev. 11: 13). However, the eagle has a wonderful way with his young; he is most kind and solicitous towards his helpless eaglets.
