Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Studies in Chumash: Introduction to Shabbat

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okay today I want to look at the text of the 10 pronouncements at Sinai yesterday we talked about very general philosophical issues then I look at the text there's a number of items in the text which are worthy of careful consideration um take a look in the blue book on page 411. everybody knows that when you're reading your translation you have to be very careful and what we do is we file that away in our brains okay let's be careful in translations then we read and we take the English and we take the English as if it were 100 and it isn't now here's one gross grossly misleading element remember the Sabbath state is sanctify it six days shall you work and accomplish all your work twice wrk you have no clue that the two words in Hebrew are utterly different words utterly different completely unrelated words one is tavod and the other is means to work which could result in aching muscles sweat exhaustion loss of energy being tired Malachi has no connotation of that of that whatsoever what might be I'll talk about in a minute but they are two entirely different concepts and then in the next line it says seventh day is Shabbos to Hashem your God you shall not do any work then it's crucial to know which work are we talking about the top of old work we're talking about the malaha work and the answers we're talking about the malacha work not the vote work now is not well translated as as work at all is a tolerable translation but is not well translated as work at

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2. 4:24and the poor English reader says but it says right here in the book don't do…
3. 8:28Christian he said to the early Christians leaders we're going to make the whole place Christian…
4. 12:33it's on the surface it's a question that people that arises in people's minds as to…
5. 16:37but here's an example in nature times threshing was often done by animals what you'd had…
6. 21:14he's not allowed to keep now he becomes a Jew and he's keeping it as a…
7. 25:19to one another God created us sharing a form of his so that we could be…
8. 29:24is just simply thrown away sometimes things happen and then our superseded by other things because…
9. 33:28and when he finished building the palace he had a celebration for those who were close…
10. 37:31what happens to you on Saturday on Shabbos so didn't have any extra for Shabbos the…

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