Friday
Mar112022
Chanoch/Noach and Yuval/Levi
In this Times of Israel post I suggested that Chanoch and his grandson Noach share a trait, that has been passed down in partial form ("If you look at the letters of Hanoch (Het Nun Vav Chaf), Noah shares only two of them (Nun Het).")
חנוך
נח
Recently it struck me that the same might be argued for another ancestor and descendant: Yuval and Levi.
Yuval is called "the father all who played the lyre and pipe" (Genesis 4:20-21). In other words, the progenitor or father of music. Levi is a very musical tribe, who end up being the singers in the Temple. And the letters of Yuval's name partially descend into Levi:
יובל
לוי
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