[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:

> I would like further clarification on this point, too, but this is
> what I think it means:  not that the actual Aramaic words used by
> Onkelos were given on Sinai together with the Torah [who even spoke
> Aramaic back then?

Everybody.  At least, everybody who was educated, or who engaged in
international trade.  It was the English of its day.


>  Why would Hebrew-speaking Israelites need a translation in a 
> language they did not even speak?]

Rashi Devarim 1:5

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