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makes the proper changes.
RABBI ISRAEL FLAM,
Congregation. Bnai Israel
Editor's Note: Rabbi Flam, by
referring to "a Dr. Freedman,"
Editor, The Jewish News:
Together with many Jews I fails to take into account the
looked forward to the new recognized scholarship of the
translation of the Bible. I hoped man he mentioned — Dr. Harry
for what your editorial calls Freedman, one of the leading
"the most accurate translation Orthodox scholars who part
ever published in English . . . pated in the preparation of the
and a translation that will have Soncino Talmud, Bible, Midrash
and Humash and who
the satisfactory adherence to
the meaning of the Hebrew had a share in the Encyclopedia
Bible." However, I am filled of Biblical Interpretation. Rabbi
with apprehension when it has Freedman was on the faculty
come to my knowledge that a of Yeshiva University and has
great part of the work is neither held rabbinical posts in this
country, England and Australia.
accurate or true.
At the outset let me say that Also — when he assumes that
Belkin
second
thoughts
a translation can never be more Dr.
on the
new has
Torah
translation,
than a poor linage of the orig-
final. The great poet and phil- he fails to take into account
osopher, Herder, of the 18th that the president of Yeshiva
century stated that it was worth- University, whose leadership he
while studying the Hebrew lan- at first seems to reject, had
the revised translation be-
guage for ten years in order to read giving
it his approval in
read Psalm 101 in the original! which he said:
This statement is applicable to
e
translators
faith-
a great part of the Torah which fully n followed
the have
Masoretic
Bible Translation
Criticized ... Reply
by the JN's Editor
is highly figurative and does text and at the same time have
not lend itself easily to trans- made full use of the latest re-
lation. While I cannot advocate
of Hebrew scholarship and
that everyone study the Bible cults
research in their work. This is
in the original, I do expect a significant contribution to
that people who represent them- Jewish scholarship and the Jew-
selves as scholars present the fish community."
Torah in the form that most What Rabbi Flam seems to
resembles the original. To mis- overlook is that the original is
translate such commonly known not, can not and will not be
words as "echad" for "first" abondoned but what the revised
rather than "one"; to tamper translation , does is render the
with the meaning of the sacred original into readable English,
thoughts of the Ten Command- accepting new interpretations
meats; to - drop words for the based on "1 atest results of
sake of style are unforgivable. Hebraic scholarship." There-
For instance: is there justifica- fore, how unfair to speak of "a
lion to translate the words poor image of the original"?
"naara me'orosso" as an en- When he spoke here, during
gaged girl? The absurd conclu- the presentation of the first
Sion of one reading the passages copies of the newly translated
sociated with this would be Torah to the Detroit contrib-
that JeWish law demands that utors to the Jewish Publication
a man having relations with an Society's Bible • fund, ;Edwin
iongaged girl is punishable by Wolf, ehairman of the JPS pub-
death. Or another example: We lication committee, expressed
-- find that the new version trans- amazement that critics - of the
lates the word "mishpatim" as new translation should - prefer
norms. Obviously the English the 300-year-old King James
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The Torah is a set code of by noted Jewish schOlai-s. Ap-
"laws" and not "norms." The ParentlY Rabbi -
Flam goes in
TOrah is not simply a book of the direction of the King James
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didactic work meant to teach .
a, available as the result of pain-
Way of life and bring to reali- staking work of Jewry's dis-
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eiigious leaders.
In your editorial you • state .
that "The three leaders of the
three branches of American
Judaism ... have declared them-
selves .. . in expressing their
commendations." You cite Dr.
.Belkin as "the" leader of Ortho-
dox Judaism. This is an errone-
ous statement, for while Dr. Bel-
kin is a scholar of renown, I
doubt if any segment of Ortho-
doxy accepts him as the leader of
its movement. In addition, it ap-'
pears that Dr. Belkin has some
second thoughts on this matter.
His endorsement of the New
Bible Translation has obviously
been based on a letter from a
Dr. FreedMar, one of the mem-,
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