LISTEN UP, GOD-WRESTLERS
Jan. 30th, 2019 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI found this on twitter a few days ago and had to share. This is the best translation of the Sh'ma I have ever seen.
Credit for finding this gem goes to Brin Solomon. Apparently it's from a book called On One Foot by Adam Greenwald and it's an introduction to Judaism coursebook. Unfortunately I can't find the actual text for this book (the Goodreads and Google books links are very sparse). The phrase "on one foot" comes from a story in the Talmud:
Credit for finding this gem goes to Brin Solomon. Apparently it's from a book called On One Foot by Adam Greenwald and it's an introduction to Judaism coursebook. Unfortunately I can't find the actual text for this book (the Goodreads and Google books links are very sparse). The phrase "on one foot" comes from a story in the Talmud:
Once there was a gentile who came before Shammai, and said to him: "Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot. Shammai pushed him aside with the measuring stick he was holding. The same fellow came before Hillel, and Hillel converted him, saying: That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it." - Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a (Jewish Virtual Library)
I'm guessing it maybe takes a bit longer than that to read the whole book, though.
