[Mesorah] V'lokachas Vayeitzei 30:15

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:22:50PM +0000, Mandel, Seth wrote:
: R Ben is correct that one cannot trust even Onkeloa, whoa tries to be literal, not to alter the form if it will be more idiomatic.

Or, to remove idioms that if taken literally would be heretical. "Yad
Hashem" (Shemos 9:3) becomes "macha min qadam Hashem". In the Throne
Vision at the end of Mishpatim (24:10), "vayir'u es E-lokei Yisrael"
becomes "vachazo yas yaqar E-laha deYisrael" (saying they saw kevod H'
rather than implying one could see G-d Himself).

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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