OPINION & COMMENT

The Tragedy of Translation

There has been a need for translation since Bovel, but its difficulties have been evident since then as well.

7-9 Teves, Three Days Of Darkness -- The Torah's Translation Into Greek: The Chasam Sofer On The Septuagint
From Droshos Chasam Sofer, Drush for the Seventh of Teves 5573 (1811-2)

The Brothers' Patience And Final Consolation
by Rabbi D. Makover

Three anomalies are evident at the beginning of this week's parsha.

A Life of Torah
by Rabbi Yerachmiel Kram

The brothers return from Egypt and relate to Yaakov that his son, Yosef, was alive and that he was the viceroy over the entire land of Egypt. The Torah reports his initial reaction: "And his heart fainted for he did not believe them." Only later, when they reported the entire exchange with Yosef and showed him the wagons which he had sent, did Yaakov's attitude change. "And the spirit of Yaakov their father was revived."

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