Targum Onkelos

It's always a legal term and very good.

If you look in source 35, again that verse, and then you look at the Targum Onkelos in 36, Zakai is innocent.

He was Zakai.

And again, if you just need convincing on this, I've said this so many times, but if you need convincing on this, did Avraham, when he said maybe there are 50 tzaddikim in stone, did you think there were 50 Hasidic Sherebis there? Could be.

But look at the Targum.

Now again, it's another thing to point out that the, the Ri Nachman had an unbelievable command of, of, of Tanakh, right? And so he says, so, "Ve'yakveini zeh pa'amayim." The Targum Onkelos is, "Ve'chachmeini." He, he used his chachma to get this.

Esav was, was amazed that, that, that Yaakov is called...

He got his name Yaakov because of his chachma.

He was the original, the OG Artscroll, okay, translating the Torah into Aramaic.

And in fact, there's a halacha, a Jewish law that says that when you're printing up a Chumash, when you're printing up a printed Torah, not a Torah scroll that the scribe writes, when you're printing a Torah, it must have Targum Onkelos, Onkelos' work of translating into Aramaic, which is basically a cousin, a sister language of Hebrew.

And that is the, that was the lingua franca of the day.

That's what people spoke in the times of the Second Temple.

In each and every, in, in each and every generation, our greatest thinkers have arisen and addressed them.

For a variety of solutions, see Targum Onkelos, Saadia Gaon in the Tafsir and commentary, Ibn Ezra in his first and second commentaries, Ramban, Chizkuni, Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabag, Abravanel, Sforno, Rav Naftali Hertz Wesley, Rav Reggio, Hakdesha Hakabbalah, and Rav Zvi Hoffman.

And all of those are hyperlinked, by the way, uh, uh, in the article.

This list is far from comprehensive.

Yeah, that is, uh, that's how it's on the Gentiles anyway.

So because of this additional level of interpretation, amor lohem, that's how the Targum Onkelos translates it.

Kad temra lahom, when the tzibbur requests of the Kohen a bracha, then the Kohen is required.

So we don't request a bracha all year long, only on Yom Tov we request.

It's a problem why the Targum Onkelos writes that, because Onkelos is supposed to be peshut to shem v'po.

So that's a problem.

Why did he write the drash of the Torah Shebeap? That's an additional level of interpretation.

He gives him peshut to shem v'po.

So Shemini Atzeret is also like erev Shabbos.

When we review the parsha with the Targum of Onkelos, we are ma'avir the seder of shnayim mikra ve'echad targum.

Today we are ma'avir seder for Parshas Hazei Habracha.

We read each pasuk twice and once in Targum Onkelos.