Orthodox Jews Express Dismay as Sefaria Launches ‘Gender-Friendly’ Translation
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The Sefaria platform, whose vast online sefarim library and translation are used by members of the frum community, has added a new translation which appears to be heretical.
In response, some orthodox Jews say they are going to delete the app from their phones, and have expressed their disappointment that this valuable resource is not aligned with Torah values. Sefaria announced a new “gender-sensitive” edition of one of its translations of Nach.
The institution tweeted: “The Revised JPS (RJPS) edition aims to present a more linguistically and historically accurate translation that reflects advances in scholarship and changes in the English language, while staying true to the original Hebrew.
The translation, from the Jewish Publication Society (JPS), pledges “greater gender inclusivity” in talking about people, and “greater gender sensitivity” in talking about G-d. One Twitter user observed that the translation changes the meaning of the words from the original Hebrew.
Yochonon Donn, Editor at Mishpacha and Yated, tweeted, “Sefaria is a tremendous resource for the olam hatorah. Messing around with sefarim hakedoshim to conform to western ideas of equality is an unacceptable breach. If this is true, I can’t see people learning from an unholy source.”
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, sarcastically tweeted, “Next up: to be more inclusive of atheists, they’ll provide a “historically accurate translation” that avoids mention of the Supreme Being. “In the beginning, heaven and earth were created.”
Some Twitter users declared that they would be deleting the Sefaria app in response to the new translation. Although there are no confirmed report of Rabbis officially banning Sefaria, such a move would certainly be plausible, as supporting a platform that endorses false interpretations of Torah, no matter how valuable, would appear to contradict Torah values , and possibly be against Halacha.
https://vinnews.com/2023/05/22/orthodox-jews-express-dismay-as-sefaria-app-launches-gender-friendly-translation/
1 comment:
Unbelievable how all this rishus has infiltrated into our religious world. I personally think that these are being allowed by the erev rav rabbis (so-called orthodox) as Chazal tell us that at the end of days, 'most' of the rabbis will be the erev rav. This is a time of birur and the erev rav are being exposed for who they really are by joining up with these new isms that are even yoter garua than the ones of the past decades. H' Yerachem aleinu! The real Jews must be made aware of these going ons by these kofrim and their evil intentions.
A big yasher koach to all these wonderful bloggers and rabbis such as Rabbi Weissman who are enlightening the public of the covert efforts of these reshaim!
H' bless these true rabbanim and tzadikim/tzdkaniot.
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