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TARGUM IS NOT FOR SCHOLARS, BUT US ALL.
Targum is not meant for scholars;
but children - beginners of all ages -
to understand TaNaKh on its basic intended level.
- Ahava=Echad
A QUICK DEFINITION TO START
"Targum" תרגום is Aramaic ארמית for- "THE MEANING EXPLICITLY STATED".
It is "A REAL-TRANSLATION", to help us differentiate it from every so called "translation" of TaNaKh we see in the world today!
THE INTENTION OF THE SPEAKERS PRESERVED & REVEALED
Targum is the transmitted translation of THE INNER INTENTION OF THE SPEAKERS -STATED NOW WRITTEN DOWN EXPLICITLY; OF THE ENTIRE TANAKH.
THE SPEAKERS INTENTIONS- (INTENDED MEANINGS)
RECORDED AT THAT TIME OF SPEAKING;
WHAT THEY MEAN BY THEIR WORDS AS THEY SPEAK
ON AN INITIAL LEVEL.
& NOT AT ALL LIKE EVERY "TRANSLATION" ON EARTH TODAY
WHICH IS FLIPPING WORDS INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE LITERALLY.
TARGUM WAS CENTRAL; SAID OUTLOUD DURING EVERY TORAH "READING"/EXPERIENCE.
Targum was probably the center focus for most people - finally hearing explcitly said aloud verse by verse the meaning of the words we read from The Torah & especially the Neviim= "Prophets" portions connected to The Torah reading that clarifies them- that are even more cryptic with more meaning hiding behind them..
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Standing next to the reader of The Torah would be the one known as The Meturgeman - "The Targum Teller". He would stands next to the Torah scroll reader; after each verse, the Torah reader pauses- & The Targum Teller- not looking into the scroll - by heart or by Targum manuscript - tells the audience the Targum the meaning explicitly of the verse. & they go verse by verse like so- till the portion is over.
Yeminites preserve this holy custom till today BH may they continue & ever-strengthen.
This custom was probably among the first things eliminated by the crusades & conquests...as it would draw every soul to convert actually understanding the meaning of the words instead of just suffering through archaic words impossible to understand. After all, Onqelous was the son of the sister of Titus- he was wise from the royal roman family & he converted & he said the image above - explained at the end - the importance of Targum. The Foundation of The World. The Building of all countries.
TARGUM IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON; WHEN YOU SPEAK THERE ARE 2 THINGS HAPPENING; WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS:
When a person speaks, the two things happening are:
the words that they say out of their mouth,
(& facial expression body language tone of voice etc)
and the meaning of the words they intended in their mind/heart (-GRA) have you ever said "wait- what do you mean? (by the words you just said) an example-
in sports one hears the words "That kid is a beast!"
now,
they do not mean "that kid has fur & fangs & claws & howls!".
they mean "that kid is strong athletic & quick like some kind of wild animal!". also notice there are many more words in the meaning - the more cryptic or obscure the reference - the more targum there is - the more meaning there is hidden behind their words- that is now being said explicitly out loud to make sure everyone understands. (why the targum of tanakh gets bigger and bigger as you progress through the 24 books)
alsothe speaker in this example specifically chose the word "beast" to describe the athletic player- to save time, & paint a much more vivid picture in the mind .which is also more fun. ("learning" experiencing wisdom is enhanced in every way in hebrew/aramaic.)The Targum does just, with the most colorful language - and helps everyone by stating explicitly the intitial meanings of the words of Scripture fully completely so no one misunderstands a single word.
THE SAGES TRANSMIT THE REWARD OF TARGUM IS LONG LIFE
"Whoever completes the weekly Torah portion in the style of twice scriptre once targum initial meaning of scripture - THEIR DAYS & YEARS WILL BE LENGTHENED. כל המשלים פרשיותיו עם הציבור שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום מאריכין לו ימיו ושנותיו
בבלי ברכות ח.:
THE SOURCE OF THE DEFINITION OF TARGUM- It is learned ironoically from a verse in the book of Ezra - which has no transmitted official Targum (initial-meaning) available - as it was prevented by God from being scribed due to the secrets it porentially would reveal that could fall into the wrong hands being read publically (Bavli Megila 3a) . but the sages transmit the meanings of select key verses & thus we look to the transmission of sinai ensured by the sages- here recorded in the Talmud - the active-question-everything-learning-process metadata from Sinai- to give us a clue into its locked meaning of this verse-
( מסכת מגילה דף ג. // מסכת נדרים דף לז
ויקראו בספר בתורת האלהים = זה מקרא מפורש = זה תרגום ושום שכל = אלו הטעמים ויבינו במקרא = אלו הפסוקים והמסורות :
תלמוד בבלי מסכת מגילה דף ג. // מסכת נדרים דף לז:
(Quick Background: During the messianic era of Ezra - & Nehemiah - The 120 last living prophets gathered the people of Israel to HaShem's Temple and taught them Torah - the verse records about the people's experience-) "& THEY READ & EXPERIENCED THE BOOK OF THE INFINITE ONE GOD -
THE AURA LIGHT OF TRUTH - OF THE ALL POWERFUL ONE =
THIS IS SCRIPTURE (THE 24 BOOKS // 24 HOURS OF DAY)
"THEY READ THOSE WORDS MEPHORASH מפרש - "EXPLICITLY" = THIS IS TARGUM
(TARGUM – STATING THE THINGS EXPLICITLY
RUINING ALL PUNCHLINES INUENDOS HINTS ALLUSIONS
FINALLY SPELLING IT ALL OUT FULLY CLEARLY
THE INTENTION OF THE SPEAKERS WORDS TO ALL THE PEOPLE THERE
the meturgeman targum teller of Raban Gamliel was called Rabbi Hutzpit. Hutzpah - external mouth - language of the streets)
& THEY PUT THEIR MIND TO UNDERSTAND THE REASONING BEHIND THE WORDS & THEIR DELIVERIES = THESE ARE TEH'AHMIM THE TUNES/EMPHASIS/ALLUSION MARKERS
& THEY UNDERSTOOD IN SCRIPTURE = THESE ARE THE END POINTS OF VERSES, & THE "MEHSORAH" FULL TRANSMISSION - SYMBOL SYSTEM HOW MANY TIMES WORDS & PHRASES APPEAR / SPELLING PUNCTUATION PRONUNCIATION BIG SMALL SPECIAL SYMBOLS ETC:
THE DEFINITIONS ARE ALWAYS CONTAINED IN THE WORD/NAME ITSELF An allusion to what the Targum is, is contained in the word itself, as it always is in biblical hebrew & its twin sister aramaic- (-Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan) So to begin to fully understand any word or concept - simply meditate on that word on a blank canvas in the ashurith script & ivri script & plummet the depths & ask The Infinite One to reveal the wisdom to you please. Here is one such mediation revealed (note hebrew aramaic is scanned from right to left)
HA-TARGUM = התרגום התר גו מ-קרא סתום = כהאות מם הסתומה HETER GOH M-IQRA SATOOM the persmission to - "GOH" aramaic for = "inside/enter into" - scripture that is cryptic & sealed off like the final mem ם closed on all sides.
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LET US BEGIN BY DEALING WITH THE INSIDIOUS POPCULTURE PROBLEM IN THE DEFINITION OF WORDS :
EVERY "TRANSLATION" ON EARTH- IS NOT WHAT TARGUM IS.
HaTargum - The Targum - as mentioned - Aramaic for
"Translationing the meaning of the heart/the intention explicitly stated"
It is nothing like every "translation on earth" which is simply literally flipping the words of Torah into the closest readable thing.
for triple emphasis that is NOT AT ALL WHAT TARGUM IS!!!
for if it were the case the sages should have phrased the mitvah of shnayim miqra veechad targum as shnayim miqra veechad bekhol saphah or lashon
there is no difference between reading an english
/any "translation" = word for word flipping into english/any language.
(the sages could have said when learning Scripture -
"shnayim miqra bekohl safa." twice the scripture- then in any language. no they said shnayim miqra vechad targum twice the scripture & once its transmitted meaning/intention. THE TONGUE OF "MIQRA" SCRIPTURE THE TONGUE OF "TARGUM" "TRANSLATION" ON EARTH. IS NOT WHAT TARGUM IS. & we know Targum must be Aramaic - because the sages transmit- The Torah has parts that are in lashon haqodesh & parts that are in lashon hatargum and the example is like YAGAR SAHADUTHA- GAL ED. יגר סהדותא = גל עד . said by lavan the aramainian in aramaic calling the bridge yagar sahadutha in aramaic and yaaqov calling the place in lashon haqodesh Gal ED (a monument to witness) & if someone translated the Torah by flipping aramaic to hebrew the entire scoll is invalid (as even one symbol incorrectly scribed or missing invalidates the entire scroll & it must be fixed if possible to repair - or buried). TARGUM: THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING EXPLICITLY. it is the revelation of what is in the heart/mind of the speaker explicitly stated. it is the intention of the speaker it is their transmitted initial meaning said explicitly. it would be cool if while people watch shows you can turn on or off the laughing audio track the background music track the captions track the meaning track - to be sure you understand what is being said in - earlier referances, metaphors, rhetoricals, sarcasm, inuendo, emotions etc. THE SAGES DO NOT CREATE; THEY ASSURE THE TRANSMISSION:
The Targum is not the invention of Onqelous.
It the transmitted initial meaning of the TaNaK he was tasked better than anyone to ensure for all time. He gives weight to it being the hero he is :
Different sages were tasked with preserving the foundational teachings of the spoken Torah that is infinite for all time
Onqelous was tasked with preserving the meaining of The Torah from Sinai
Aramaic.
Aqilas (if same person or different) was tasked the same but in greek.
Just like Rabbi Shimon was tasked with The Zohar.
MIQRA&TARGOOM GO HAND IN HAND. WORDS, & THEIR MEANINGS: When you speak, there are 2 things happening: There are the words you say out loud, & there is what you mean by those words (that choice of words, in that context, in that intonation, etc).
DIBUR AMIRAH ARAMIT=AMARTI.
IT IS NOT A SEPERATE LANGUAGE BUT A SPECIAL HEAVY ACCENT &
"ARAMAIT = LESHON HAQODESH MESHUBASH"
"ARAMAIC = BIBLICAL HEBREW - WISHY-WASHY"ARAMAIC HAS THE SYMBOLS OF RAMAI = FOOLER TRICKESTER/FOOLING OTHERS INTO THINKING THIS IS ANOTHER LANGUAGE
WHEN REALLY IT IS HIDDEN HEBREW WISHY-WASHY HEBREW IN THE ACCENT/LISP OF SOMEONE WHO BURNED THEIR MOUTH & TONGUE.SHOR = THOR
EESHAH = EET'THAH
OSHER = OTHER
KANAPH = GADNAPH
ARAMAIC IS MANY SYMBOL PAIR FLIPS - In the basic aleph bet lesson we learn for example samekh & eyin are paird & go together - so words in the Torah with a samekh in the targum have an eyin, words in the Torah with an eyin in the targum have a samekh
On the last page of the Additional Targum of Zekhariah at the end of the codex in the france gallica library - here is a note - This is the book in all the wisdoms that combined together Anqilous/Ounqelous (Onkelous) & he said that this is the foundation of the universe - & there is wisdom here that unlocks layers in all other wisdoms in the world & it is the building of all the countries - & its pillars are 7, (by) 7, it is completed in the time known as the end of time as we know it from the year 3,577 since "The Adam". now being the year 5,784 - 5784
3577 -
2,207 years ago. ____________________________________
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