Khuda hafez ["God protect"] is "goodbye" in Farsi. There are several sites for leaning Farsi, one of which is:
<http://www.easypersian.com/>http://www.easypersian.com/ But at the supposed time of Esther and Mordecai, Aramaic was the imperial language! Commoners spoke Pahlevi, an earlier form on modern Farsi. Khuda hafez Phil Miller ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
