The Problem With Translating The Torah #rabbiorlofsky #torah #jewishhistory

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Why? Because when a kuresh bar made the first alos, those luos were made by a kuresh bar. And so they were infinite and they could hold all of the Tory and all the meanings of the Torah. The second lus Moshe made and so they were not infinite. They couldn't hold an infinite amount of Torah like the first ones could. They were more limited. And once we translate the Torah into Greek, you don't need a to tell you now what it's supposed to be and what it's supposed to mean. And that's a big problem. So if a person want to learn Tora, you understand that it has to go through the Jewish people who can explain it. And people who are interested in twisting things around for their own purposes, it's not Tyra anymore. And now that it was in Greek and everyone could read it without understanding it, that was a terrible tragedy. But now the Torah was was open

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1. 0:00Why? Because when a kuresh bar made the first alos, those luos were made by a…
2. 0:34it's supposed to be and what it's supposed to mean. And that's a big problem. So…
3. 1:04to Bible criticism, [music] misinterpretation. Thomas Payne in the Age of Reason points out that the…
4. 1:35right, but he was working with an English translation of a Latin translation of a Greek…
5. 2:06then the translation continued to grow until therefore he turns around and wants to slug up…

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