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From: play@mcvax.UUCP (funhouse)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: George Washington (Ghoulish Joke)
Message-ID: <475@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 10:25:22 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.475
Posted: Thu Feb 21 10:25:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 07:20:01 EST
References: <225@lcuxc.UUCP> <1599@qubix.UUCP> <380@harvard.ARPA>
Reply-To: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <380@harvard.ARPA> albert@harvard.ARPA (David Albert) writes:
>> >    [Ken Wolman]
>> >                  Kol machalokes shehi l'shaem shamayim,
>> >                             sofo l'hiskayaem;
>> >                        v'sheana l'shaem shamayim,
>> >                           ayn sofo l'hiskayaem.
>
> ... it's Hebrew.  I've forgotten what
> "machalokes" means, but otherwise the translation runs:
>
> Every (machalockes) that is for the Lord,
> will last,
> and those that are not for the Lord,
> will not last.

Machalokes (where the final s transcribes a tav) means 'division' (of an army)
or more generally 'part' (e.g. of one's possessions).