The Oil Spill – Article by Aish.com

The Oil Spill.  I so love the wisdom that I glean from the site Aish.com.  A “biblical” perspective on this nastiness of the oil spill, the importance of digging to the root meaning of a word.  The article introduces us with:

“Far better is a good name, Solomon cautioned, than good oil. [This is from Ecclesiastes]

The English translation hardly does justice to the beautiful play on words in the original Hebrew. The three letter Hebrew word for oil, shemen, has its first two letters spell the word shem, Hebrew for name. Oil, shemen, has always been a precious and highly prized commodity. But its very descriptive is meant to remind us of the primacy of shem, our name and our reputation.”