Down The Rabbi Hole

The 8th of Teves and Chasam Sofer's Fascination with it

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In this episode we cover: 

  • A bit on the Chabad celebration of 5 Teves, "Yom Didan Natzach"
  • Background on Megillas Taanis - both the Tannaitic and Geonic versions
  • Attitudes toward the translation of the Torah into Greek - in Chazal and among other groups
  • The Chasam Sofer's fascination with the 8th of Teves as the day commemorating the translation

    • Links  to articles mentioned:

    • Moshe Simon-Shoshan, "The Tasks of the Translators: The Rabbis, The Septuagint, and the Cultural Politics of Translation"
    • Maoz Kahana, "How Chatam Sofer Vanquished Spinoza" (Hebrew)
    • Elli Fischer, "Azariah de Rossi's Fascination with the Septuagint"
      • ...more
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