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So too, for vanity, hevel, which is how the verse describes beauty.
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Yitro 5770 - February 5, 2010 ] 2010
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The first words of his "memoir" are hevel havalim -- Hebrew often translated as "utter futility," but even more literally the notion that everything in life is but an empty, meaningless whip of the wind.
Rabbi Jennifer Krause: A Time for War, A Time for Peace Prizes 2009
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Whereas again, with some refocusing and willingness to recognize and search for the most important qualities for a sustaining and lasting relationship, you might just be able to take the letters that form hevel and form the word halev, the heart.
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Yitro 5770 - February 5, 2010 ] 2010
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King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
Esser Agaroth 2009
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King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
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Ethan Dor-Shav has argued, impressively, that Ecclesiastes’ intention is altogether different, and that a common misconception arises from a mistranslation of the Hebrew hevel as “vanity.”
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
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