Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - The Tenth of Tevet

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

On that very day, the king of Bavl began his siege. So as a result, this is when we first begin chronologically. This is the chronologically first fast day that makes us think about the bik. We know that later on the 17th of Tamuz is when the Romans burst into the city and on tishabove both the bay rishon and the bay sheni took place. One thing that is a bit unique about now again to go back to the indicates that on the eth of much later that is when the Greek translation was completed of the Torah where Talmay wanted a copy of the Torah in Greek and 70 elders were put in separate rooms and they translated and they made various changes and they all came to the same uh conclusions. And even though one might think, oh, a translation should be a cause for celebration, described as the famous or the infamous Septuagent, the Tarum was considered to number one introduce the ability of non-Jews to distort the Torah, a practice that goes on to this very day. It also discouraged some Jews from becoming literate in the lashes and indeed the Alexandrian communities. We're in fact very ignorant of Hebrew. When the Gmor McGiller talks about writing a safer Torah in Greek and it acknowledges that as a possibility, it is referring specifically to that gahila. And finally, in every translation, there are so many nuances and subtleties that by definition are going to get lost. So although we do acknowledge that art scroll and all of the fine translators have a role in the world, we need them unfortunately but they are in the nature of a crutch and kazal say they were not the best optimal

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