Biblical & Targumic Aramaic

This course with Rabbi Dovid Fink will be an introduction to Aramaic as used in Tanach (in Daniel and Ezra) and in Targum Onkelos. This course is $20. If you decide to take it please make a $20 donation HERE.

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April 23, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 1

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In our first session we will cover noun endings and some phonetic shifts between Hebrew and Aramaic.

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April 30, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 2

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Daniel 2:6-7: Phonetic comparisons between Hebrew and Aramaic (ת/ש ה/א o/a), Cardinal numbers, Contractions in Talmudic Aramaic.

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May 7, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 3

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While continuing with Biblical Aramaic, we will also read the Aramaic Targum of the Song of Songs. Today: verse 8 in the text of Daniel and the beginning of the Aramaic version of the Song of Songs.

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May 14, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 4

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In this lesson: Daniel 2:9 and Song of Songs 1:6, בגדכפת with and without a dot, ז in Hebrew corresponds with ד in Aramaic, passive participles infinitives.

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May 28, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 5

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June 4, 2018 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Biblical & Targumic Aramaic: Lesson 6

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Rabbi Dovid Fink

In addition to being one of Rabbi Brovender's first students, Rabbi Dovid Fink is an outstanding expertﾠand teacher of Halacha. Rabbi Fink received his Rabbinic ordination from ITRI and the Mir and was awarded his Ph.D in Semitic Languages and Linguistics from Yale University. Rav Fink has taught thousands of students from all over the world for over 35 years.