{"id":39175,"date":"2018-09-03T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=39175"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:55:14","slug":"to-censor-or-not-to-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/to-censor-or-not-to-censor\/","title":{"rendered":"To Censor or Not to Censor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[361,568,569],"acf":{"old_id":"39175","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36692,"related_cahpter":"38","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Or why you need to know Hebrew to get the juicy stuff\u2026","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Censorship of words of Torah is hard to believe, yet\u2026. The Mishna (Megillah 4:10) allows us to peek into the world of the ancient synagogue and to taste something of what happened inside its walls. Among other things, it deals with sections of the Torah that are read in public as part of the Torah reading, as part of the regular cycle, but are given a simultaneous translation into Aramaic, the language understood by a considerable number of those who attended the synagogue at the time. For the sake of this community of Aramaic speakers &#8211; who did not necessarily know Hebrew fluently &#8211; it was determined that verses that seemed problematic would not be translated, so that not all those who heard the Torah reading knew what it meant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, for example, the story of Reuben and Bilhah in Genesis 35:22, which does not reflect well on Reuben or his father Jacob, is \u201cread but not translated.\u201d \u00a0This is also the case with the second part of the golden calf incident (apparently referring to Exodus 32:25-31, in which Aaron is presented in a negative light).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In both cases these episodes were glossed over in order to protect the honor of the nation&#8217;s great figures and pioneers. Remarkably, the &#8220;story of Tamar&#8221; in Genesis Chapter 38 is determined to be one that is &#8220;read and translated,&#8221; but from the fact that the Mishna feels the need to mention that it is translated, one can infer that there were places where there was doubt as to whether to translate it or not, all in order to preserve Judah&#8217;s honor. Indeed, the Talmud (Megillah 25b) states that one might have thought that translating this story in public would have detracted from Judah\u2019s honor, but the opposite is the case. \u00a0His admission of guilt is a sign of his greatness, and therefore it is appropriate to read this story and even translate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did those who came to the synagogue sense that someone was hiding something from them? Did they ever try to read those passages that the teacher tried to hide and skip out of some slight embarrassment? 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