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Renewable Energy (Rabbi Sacks on Beshallach, Covenant & Conversation)

The Office of Rabbi Sacks

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Introduction

The first translation of the Torah into another language, Greek, took place in second century BCE. Talmud says sages mistranslated certain texts because they believed literal translation would be unintelligible to a Greek readership. Shabbat is one of the greatest institutions the world has ever known: it changed the way the world thought about time.

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