On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:19:03, rabbi@... (Matt Friedman)
opined:

Sorry folks. The word for gray haired is ba'al sivah, not ba'al shivah.

Not a fine point at all. The word is, in fact, "seiva" (say va).

The finer points of Hebrew grammar are making me go gray...

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GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Romania

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