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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 24, 1919
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Cheder Institute Graduates
Honored for Talmud Study
Graduates of the Cheder
Institute will be honored at
a reception 8 p.m. Wednes-
day in the Lazaroff Hall at
Cong. Mishkan Israel
Nusach H'Ari.
The students, Gedaliah
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Shemtov, David S. Polter,
Moishe Silver and Dovid A.
Polter, collectively learned
750 pages of talmudic law
by heart in a period of about
one month. The boys are all
14 years old.
For mastering more
than 270 pages of law and
discussion, Gedaliah
Shemtov will receive a
collection of talmudic
works.
The reception also will be
occasion to welcome to the
community the new princi-
pal of the institute, Rabbi
Yitzchok Wolf, and the new
rosh yeshiva, Rabbi
Nachman Yossaif Twersky.
Rabbi Elimelech Silber-
berg, spiritual leader of
Cong. Bais Chabad of West
Bloomfield, is the principal
of the Cheder Institute.
Tel Aviv Bombs
Injure 4 Persons
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Four
persons were injured when
two bombs exploded Tues-
day night at the Tel Aviv
exhibition grounds. A child
and two women were in-
jured when the first bomb
went off at 6 p.m. at the
amusement park area. An
hour later another bomb
exploded at a youth town,
injuring a youth.
The youth town, which is
run by a youth council dur-
ing the summer, provides a
variety of cultural and
entertainment events
throughout the day.
Thousands of people were
visiting the exhibition
grounds when the explo-
sions occurred.
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Lyle Parr, President
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Ex-Detroiter Analyzes Christian's
Commentary on Book of Daniel
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"Of the (Church) fathers
acquainted with Hebrew,
easily the most important is
Jerome, since he made the
greatest efforts — and with
a measure of success un-
matched by any other
Church father — to master
Hebrew and thus was able
to approach the Jewish tra-
dition directly?'
Louis
Prof.
Thus,
Feldman wrote in the
"Preface" to Jay Braver-
man's monograph
`:Jerome's Commentary on
Daniel: a Study of Com-
parative Jewish and Chris-
tian Interpretations of the
Hebrew Bible," published
by the Catholic Biblical
Association of America.
Jerome, the famed
Church father and trans-
lator of the Hebrew Bible
into Latin, by mastering
Latin, Greek, Syriac and
Hebrew, "The Jewish
Encyclopedia" states,
"united in his person the
culture of the East and of
the West."
In addition to the Vul-
gate (Jerome's Latin
translation of the He-
brew Bible), he authored
biblical commentaries.
Jerome's interpretation
of Daniel 1:3, especially of
the phrase "rav sorisov"
that corresponds to that
of the rabbinic tradition
is a good example. It
reads in part: "From this
passage (1:3) the He-
brews think that Daniel,
Hananiah, Michael, and
Azariah were eunuchs,
thus fulfilling that
prophecy which is spo-
ken by the prophet Isaiah
to Hezekiah."
However, according to
Onkelos (translator of the
Pentateuch into Aramaic)
and other commentators,
the term "soris" means ser-
vant or official, not eunuch.
Neither does Josephus
("Antiquities of the Jews"
10:186-187) include Daniel
and his companions among
the eunuchs of the royal
court.
Jerome's commentary on
Daniel 6:5 is not found in
rabbinic literature. The bi-
blical verse reads in part:
"Then the presidents and
the satraps sought to find
occasion against Daniel as
touching the kingdom."
Jerome comments: "And in
this passage the Hebrews
suspect some such (deduc-
tion) as this: the 'side of the
king' is the queen or his con-
cubines and the other wives
who slept at his side . . . This
(interpretation) was made
Yavneh Celebrate
20th Anniversary
NEW YORK — Yavneh,
the National Religious
Jewish Students Associa-
tion, will celebrate its 20th
anniversary over Labor Day
weekend as the oldest inde-
pendent Orthodox student
organization. Yavneh will
hold its national convention
at Camp Moshava, Indian
Orchard, Pa.
by those (Jews) who make a
practice of weaving long
tales on the pretext of a
single word."
Jerome misinterpreted
the phrase "touching (re-
garding) the kingdom." He
translated it 'side of the
king.'
Jewish
"The
Encyclopedia" char-
acterizes Jerome as fol-
lows: "Jerome was no
friend to the Jews, al-
though he owed them
much; he often rebukes
them for their errors; re-
proaches them for being
stiffnecked and inimical
to the Christians; con-
troverts their views in the
strongest terms; curses
and reviles them; takes
pleasure in their misfor-
tune; and even uses
against them both the
books that he has cun-
ningly obtained from
them and the knowledge
he has derived. there-
from. Thus, the Jews and
Christians agree that he
is eminent only for his
scholarship, and not for
his character."
Braverman's
Dr.
"Jerome's Commentary on
Daniel" fills a gap in the lit-
erature on the Aggada and
is a major contribution to
Jewish scholarship.
Dr. Braverman, presently
the educational director of
Montreal's United Talmud
Torahs, served as principal
of the high school and
taught at the Midrasha of
the Detroit United Hebrew
Schools from September
1966 to January 1969.
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