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Kazoh Kitamori insists that the pain of God is a theme that pervades the Bible, citing, for example, Jeremiah 31.20 and Isaiah 63.15, in which the word hamah connotes intense love and pain.
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Hence, if a marriage halakhically requires a capability of reproduction, as is the case most prominently in levirate marriage, since reproduction for the childless deceased man is its main purpose, both the saris hamah and the ailonit are excluded from it (Mishnah Yevamot 8: 5).
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For the former the Mishnah and subsequent halakhic literature distinguish between a saris hamah, a man who is born with the defect (Tosefta Yevamot 10: 3.6, perhaps “from the time of seeing the sun,” also described as a man born with only one testicle), and a saris adam, a man who becomes incapable of reproduction by human interference (Mishnah Yevamot 8: 5 – 6), but who was at some point capable of reproduction.
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The Saxons (Ru-hamah) will call the Jews their brother, those whom in the past they have hated and persecuted; and thought themselves far removed from Jewish blood.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild
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And the time will come when Lo-Ruhamah shall become Ru-hamah, which means to have obtained mercy.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild
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Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
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Narrated Sa'd ibn Malik: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: There is no hamah, no infection and no evil omen; if there is in anything an evil omen, it is a house, a horse, and a woman.
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