[Avodah] Project Proposal - Rewrite Chovos Hal'vavos

[Prof. Levine]

At 09:47 AM 12/4/2009, Saul Mashbaum wrote:

>RRW
> >>>
>In studying Hovos Hal'vavos I noticed that the "fine wine" is stored in
>a medeival cask" so to speak.
>
>IOW, the concepts are valuable today, but the idioms and parables
>seem dated.
>
>I would love to see a gifted author re-work this classic into a more
>contemporary idiom. Any suggestions?
> >>
>
>At least the language has been reworked.
>
>There is an edition of Hovot Hal'vavot , "Lev Tov", by R. Pinchas Yehuda
>Lieberman, in which on each page, the original translation is accompanied by
>a rewrite in *much* clearer and comprehensible Hebrew, which remains
>faithful to the original.
>This work was published in 1968-71, apparently by the author; I don't see
>any information about a publisher, just  a note "all rights reserved to the
>author".
>I don't know about the availability of this work, but it's definitely worth
>looking for; it makes learning Hovot Hal'vavot immeasurably easier.  I
>recommend this work highly.
>
>Saul Mashbaum

Wasn't this originally written in Arabic? If so, then I have wondered 
from time to time how accurate the translation into Hebrew is.  Has 
anyone recently translated this work from the original Arabic? Would 
not it make sense to have a rewrite based on the original work as 
opposed to the Hebrew translation?

YL
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