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I'll save some back and forth and spell it out. From Zionist Conspirator's view:

(1) Christianity is a heresy and invalid.

(2) The Torah should not have been translated because it enabled the heresy of Christianity.

(3) The Torah is only for the Jews, who are the only Chosen People of God.

ZC, you are welcome to correct me.

PapaBear, you hit the nail on the head!

I still don't understand what iscool is talking about. He simply isn't making any sense to me. And for admitting that I don't understand he calls me "cocky?"

G-d wrote the Torah in Hebrew, the Holy Language. The Holy Letters of the 'Alef-Bet were the first things created, and they formed the "building blocks" of all the created worlds. The entire human race spoke Hebrew until the haflagah (dispersal) at the Tower of Babel. The Torah could not have been written in any other language.

If you think the Torah's only message is the one that comes through in a translation, you are very, very mistaken. This is part of it, true. But the Hebrew letters have numerical value that don't come through in a translation. There are acrostics and codes hidden at equidistant letter spaces, and these cannot be translated. The names of the letter have meaning. The sizes and shapes of the letters have meaning (that's why it takes so long to write a Torah scroll correctly). Everything must be just right, and none of these things come across in a translation. Even the spaces between the letters have meaning! Sorta makes your Thomas Nelson printed King James "bible" seem inadequate, doesn't it?

And iscool, the Torah, and in fact none of the Bible, was given to you. It was given to Israel. It is their heritage. They are the only ones who may delve into its deep secrets, and they are certainly the only ones who can interpret it correctly. And yes, the chr*stian claim that the "old testament" is now the common property of the entire human race, which has somehow taken Israel's place, is (pardon the non-kosher expression) "hogwash."

Thanks for your help, PapaBear, and my apologies for perhaps embarrassing you. I know you don't agree with me, but I appreciate the fact that you can understand my position even if you don't agree with it.