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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: "Zvi Lampel" <A
href="mailto:hlampel@thejnet.com">hlampel@thejnet.com</A><BR><BR>R' Zvi Lampel
wrote:<BR>>>Now, the quote from the Sefer HaIkarrim.... <BR>...."The Torah
is called a "testimony" (aidus --Ex. 25:21 and Ps. 132:12). This is to signify
that the Torah must be understood by pashtus (the normal meaning of its words),
just as the testimony of witnesses:...<<<BR><BR><BR>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>Nevertheless we do not translate "Etzba Elokim" or "Yad Hashem"
literally. So it's not always so pashut what pashtus
is.<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>