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"I still can't taste the nafka minah between Coke and Pepsi."
Lo naim means more than "unpleasant" and has no exact English equivalent.
In addition to meaning “thus”, ken also means valid.
The overriding theme of Neilah is God's readiness always to accept and forgive all who turn in repentance.
The word harat is connected to pregnancy and birth.
Machzor is a cycle, deriving from the root chazar, to return.
Taharah is purification, from tahor, meaning pure.
The modern Hebrew word for soldier is chayal, coined by Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
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