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0:00 There was a story about this same thing with Onkelos. Onkelos the convert. In Tractate Gittin, page 56b, it is written that he performed a raising and brought up 'the one, may his name be erased' - whose name it is forbidden to say. It is written in the book of Shemos, chapter 23, verse 13: 'And the name of other gods you shall not mention; it shall not be heard from your mouth.' As they expounded in Sanhedrin, page 63: there is a severe prohibition in mentioning them - even to cause a non-Jew to come and vow and swear by the name of idolatry.
0:25 It is a name that is impure. Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz says, in Midrash Pinchas, Shaar HaKedushah, the Gate of Holiness, that a person who says the name of that one, may his name be erased - who says his name - becomes entirely impure and must immerse. All the limbs and sinews become impure; everything, all of him, becomes impure, just by mentioning this name. It is so impure that this name makes him impure. Also the second one, Shabbetai, whose name it is forbidden to say - 'Sh.Tz.' by its initials - and also 'may his name be erased': these two - when one says them, the person becomes entirely impure, and he has no remedy at all for this if he does not go to immerse.
0:55 He must purify himself from this impurity, that he mentioned with his mouth these impure names, so that he became impure entirely. Also to be careful about mentioning 'do...' (a dog), not to say it at all, unless there is some verse or things like that, because it can bring a person to the impurity of keri, a seminal emission. These are all kinds of levels of holiness one must be careful about, so that a person does not come through them, Heaven forbid, to something bad. The meaning of teshuvah is to reveal the good in him - now, with Onkelos. After all, how was it with Onkelos? He had the teshuvah - he raised them up, and then he saw that they are falsehood in Heaven, and they have no tikkun and no ascent at all, and only the way of our Torah of truth is the right way,
1:29 and to it one must go, and to it one must step. And then, when he converted, he brought them all back - in the church of Rome. it is written in Tractate Avodah Zarah, page 11a - sent to him all the teachers, so that they could all bring him back, and each one - he brings him back in teshuvah, he converts them all, and he can do nothing against him, he does not know what to do. Each one he sends, he begins to prove to him with knowledge and straight reasoning how much falsehood and repulsiveness there is among the Romans, that there is no knowledge in them and nothing at all, and everything is falsehood, and all is vanity, all is vanity and chasing the wind, and there is nothing in anything.
2:02 there is no sense in it, no hope - why go in this way of theirs? There is no hope and no remedy in them.
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