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To: Zionist Conspirator
This is why the Hebrew Bible can never be adequately translated into any other language and why no other religion can possibly interpret it correctly.

I don't get it...The fella copying the scroll speaks English...What's to prevent him from translating correctly into English what he is reading and writing in Hebrew???

11 posted on 08/10/2009 4:04:38 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
I don't get it...The fella copying the scroll speaks English...What's to prevent him from translating correctly into English what he is reading and writing in Hebrew???

You obviously don't, and to tell the truth I don't get your question. Exactly what are you asking?

The person described by the article is a sofer, a Jewish Scribe. He is not translating at all. He is hand copying a Torah Scroll (in the original Hebrew text, all consonants and no vowels or punctuation) in accordance with the innumerable laws and regulations (handed down since the days of Moses) so that when he is finished he will have written a kosher Torah Scroll that is an exact replica of the one written by Moses and, before that, the First Great Torah Scroll written by G-d. It is only these kosher hand-written scrolls that are used for Torah readings in synagogue services.

14 posted on 08/10/2009 6:07:03 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Re'eh, 'Anokhi noten lifneykhem hayom; berakhah uqelalah.)
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