Point and counterpoint/ contradiction

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Point and counterpoint/ contradiction

Point and counterpoint/ contradiction

Paradox. Two things that are opposites or contradict each other. 'Tartei desatei' (Aramaic for 'two contradictories').

(“In the days of the Nile the waters were sweet and could not be drunk, yet here the bitter waters became sweet, for the Lord made and transformed them” (Ibn Ezra, Exodus 15:26). Similarly, “You have dried up mighty rivers and transformed them; the flaky rock you turned into a spring, and from abundant waters you made dry land” (Radak, Psalms 104), and “They and their fragments, and the fragments of their fragments, are matters and their transformations, as when all are poured together” (Bialik, Safiach 1:126). Likewise, Solomon, in his wisdom, “compiled the Book of Proverbs, from which through the parables a person grasps a matter and transforms it” (Agnon, Ad Hena, VeTarov Chochmat Shlomo, 235).)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

דָּבָר וְהִפּוּכוֹ

Definition (Hebrew)

פָּרָדוֹקְס. שְׁנֵי דְּבָרִים הֲפוּכִים אוֹ סוֹתְרִים הָאֶחָד אֶת הַשֵּׁנִי. 'תַּרְתֵּי דְסָתְרֵי'.

("כִּי מֵימֵי הַיְּאוֹר הָיוּ מְתוּקִים וְלֹא יָכְלוּ לִשְׁתּוֹת מֵהֶם. וְכָאן הַמַּיִם הַמָּרִים שֶׁבּוֹ מְתוּקִים. וְהִנֵּה הַשֵּׁם עָשָׂה הַדָּבָר וְהָפְכוּ"- אִבְּן עֶזְרָא שְׁמוֹת טוּ כו, וְכֵן:"אַתָּה הוֹבַשְׁתָּ נַהֲרוֹת אֵיתָן, דָּבָר וְהִפּוּכוֹ, כִּי הַצּוּר הַחַלָּמִישׁ הָפַכְתָּ לְמַעֲיָן, וּמֵרֹב הַמַּיִם הָפַכְתָּ לְיַבָּשָׁה"- רָדָ"ק תְּהִלִּים פֶּרֶק עַד, וְכֵן:"הֵם וְשִׁבְרֵיהֶם וְשִׁבְרֵי שִׁבְרֵיהֶם,דְּבָרִים וְהִפּוּכָם בְּצִדָּם כְּשֶׁהֵם מְזוּגִים כֻּלָּם יַחַד"-בְּיָאלִיק/ סָפִיחַ א, קעו, וְכֵן:"כֵּיוָן שֶׁהִגְדִּיל שְׁלֹמֹה...עָמַד וְחִבֵּר סֵפֶר מִשְׁלֵי, שֶׁמִּתּוֹךְ הַמָּשָׁל אָדָם עוֹמֵד עַל דָּבָר וְהִפּוּכוֹ"- עַגְנוֹן/ עַד הֵנָּה, וְתָרֹב חָכְמַת שְׁלֹמֹה, 235)

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