[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> Mal'akhim can figure out
> English, but not Hebrew's sister? And in fact in Chagiga 16a the
> notion is framed as mal'akhim only speak Hebew.

RMF takes it for granted that they only understand properly pronounced
Hebrew, and therefore they can only hear the prayers of whichever of
our various edot, if any, has preserved the correct accent.   Since all
we have to go on is mesorah, we each have to preserve the one we were
given, in case it's the right one.  If we had some way of knowing that
some other edah's accent was the right one, we'd have to switch to it.


> It could be a machloqes, or one
> could say (as I want to) that "Aramaic" is sometimes an aggadic
> buzzword for any chol language.

Say rather that Aramaic is simply an example of a language they don't
understand.

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