tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post7848541151136783174..comments2024-03-28T02:08:17.990+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Me'Am Lo'ez: Jerusalem was destroyed because they didn't sacrifice pigs in the Temple?!Daas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-62650984633137293502024-03-13T02:14:29.271+02:002024-03-13T02:14:29.271+02:00Great pointGreat pointAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-28471460026259762342015-02-01T22:37:17.520+02:002015-02-01T22:37:17.520+02:00Both cited by Mesillas Yesharim as improper chasid...Both cited by Mesillas Yesharim as improper chasidus.kishkeyumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-77809737831304757852015-02-01T22:36:17.092+02:002015-02-01T22:36:17.092+02:00The Hebrew text is at the bottom of the post. He c...The Hebrew text is at the bottom of the post. He clearly was not doing a literal translation and he seem to have forgotten the gemora in Gittin. If he had known the gemora in Gittin he could not have written what he did. Daas Torahhttp://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-34040979253664237742015-02-01T22:26:46.008+02:002015-02-01T22:26:46.008+02:00yd 1:101 - thanks for catching the erroryd 1:101 - thanks for catching the errorDaas Torahhttp://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-55888205593655326192015-02-01T21:58:55.528+02:002015-02-01T21:58:55.528+02:00Perhaps the translator was working with a faulty o...Perhaps the translator was working with a faulty original text?Garnel Ironheartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-23825928086735390182015-02-01T21:35:45.206+02:002015-02-01T21:35:45.206+02:00there must be a mistake in the referance to igros ...there must be a mistake in the referance to igros moshe! it's not yd 3:101zaqwaqnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-55489682081134385082015-02-01T21:27:23.747+02:002015-02-01T21:27:23.747+02:00@Ari B - this volume was not translated by Rabbi K...@Ari B - this volume was not translated by Rabbi Kaplan and it has been around for over 30 years. Without apparrently being noticed.Daas Torahhttp://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-39824919541095804122015-02-01T20:26:50.766+02:002015-02-01T20:26:50.766+02:00I'm really not sure if this should be posted a...I'm really not sure if this should be posted as a post, or if you should just take this as a note to you.<br /><br />This is distressing but it requires some further research before one can accuse Rabbi Kaplan of completely distorting the original here. Regrettably, many of his works would have benefited greatly from source checking and thorough editing. He was brilliant and worked under tight deadlines, it is said that he never checked sources and wrote everything from memory. Truly an incredible feat, but despite his repeated requests to have the material edited, it is reported that the publisher refused to invest those resources. His introduction to Sefer Yetzirah there is an eggregious distortion in his retelling of the conception of Ben Sira. <br /><br />As I recall, where there was an original Ladino addition by Rabbi Yaakov Culy, the translation was taken from there. The translation is based on Hebrew only on those volumes that were originally written in Hebrew by Rabbi Shmuel Yerushalmi.Ari Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-3249537846289567692015-02-01T20:05:10.875+02:002015-02-01T20:05:10.875+02:00Whoever translated this probably mixed up the stor...Whoever translated this probably mixed up the story of R' Zechariah ben Akilas and the Gemara at the end of Sotah that says that כשצרו מלכי בית חשמונאי זה בזה, one faction besieged Yerushalayim. They would send up a sheep in a basket each day for the korban tamid. When they realized that so long as the avodah continued, the city would stand, they sent up a pig instead of a sheep.kishkeyumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-3455260935786358002015-02-01T18:41:54.344+02:002015-02-01T18:41:54.344+02:00Zecharia b. Avkulos is criticized for not adapting...Zecharia b. Avkulos is criticized for not adapting to changing scenarios, and not willing to take action when the situation requires it. <br />Remember also the case with Gedaliah. who also refused to assassinate Ishmael, who was planing to kill him. Precisely the same kind of situation.Eddienoreply@blogger.com