Re: Hilchot Treifot in English?

In article <dg5mmu$cj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jonathan K. Cohen <jkcohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>backon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>> Go learn Chumash with Rashi. Spend a few years in a real yeshiva.
>> But stop making a mockery of my religion.


>Dr. Backon, it may be my ignorance talking (and I can anticipate your
>remark that it is), but why shouldn't someone make a translation for
>himself as part of his studies? When I studied foreign languages, I made
>translations for my own use. I would never share them with others, as I
>knew that they were flawed, and they were for the ephemeral purpose of
>preparing for recitation the next day. Even so, no one intervened to say
>that I didn't have the right to make a translation because of my lack of
>knowledge of the language.

>What is the problem here? Is it that you are afraid that the translation
> might be circulated or believed to have undue authority?

Or one could take the basic Reform attitude; put down the
principles and the arguments, and let people decide.

I am not concerned with what a sage concluded, but with
the reasoning. Not all argue the same. Hertz mentions
in his _Chumash_ that he considers glazed pottery to be
like glass when it comes to meat and milk.

Reasoning based on principles, not pronouncement from
philosophers, are what we need.


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