Rischa D'Araisa-Season 2-Episode 2-Is the Malbim's Perush on Nach the next important work that needs to be translated?

 

Rischa D'Araisa-Season 2-Episode 2-Is the Malbim's Perush on Nach the next important work that needs to be translated?

Season 2, Ep. 2

Rabbi Bechhofer makes his case for the Perush on Nach of Rav Meir Leibish Malbim to be translated and made accessible to a non-Hebrew reading populace.

Moreover, he stresses its primary significance for any serious student of Tanach and bemoans the Yeshiva world's neglect of learning the words of the Neviim in a systematic way.

Rabbi Kivelevitz attempts to squelch his friend's enthusiasm by putting in perspective the historical antecedents and other works that were produced contemporaneously by other Jewish scholars that Malbim borrowed from.

He also suspects that the work being rendered in a new language would run counter to one of the great author's reasons for writing the work, promoting the use of Loshon Kodesh and extend the boundaries of Rabbinic literature to prod others to pen original compositions in the grand form of the ancient prophets.

The pair discuss a few other original contributors to the deepening of Daas Mikra-

Shmuel Dovid Lutzatto, Rav Shamshon Rafael Hirsch, along with two professors that Kivelevitz and Bechhofer knew well from their Chicago days, Rav Hirsch Isenberg, and Doctor Avraham Lipschitz.

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