Sunday 22 March 2009

Rav Berg Translated the Zohar to English

You might not know this, but Rav Berg is the first person that translated the entire Zohar into English. Amazing! Without this translation we would all be forced to learn Aramaic in order to read the Zohar. Aramaic is a little used language today but used to be in much more wide usage many hundreds of years ago. Aramaic is a Semitic language related to both Hebrew and Arabic. While I'm on the subject I'll tell you the little I know about Aramaic. Some books of the Bible are written in Aramaic, including the books of Daniel, and Ezra. The Talmud is also largely written in Aramaic. More later.