Talk:Heave offering
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[edit] Propose rename to Terumah
In the absence of objection, will rename to "Terumah". I believe Artscroll's editorial decision in their English translations of the Hebrew Bible and Talmud not to translate technical Hebrew terms for sacrifices and the like is sound. Nobody uses and few understand the the traditional King James English translations of these terms. There is no contemporary constituency for them. But there is a contemporary constitutuency for the Hebrew terms. So if one is going to have to learn a bunch of essentially foreign terminology one may as well just transliterate the Hebrew terms directly. Moreover, I suspect that popularization of Talmud study in English through translations like the Schottenstein have made these terms more common in English use. Any objections? --Shirahadasha 22:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
This "Heave Offering" article groups together a set of practices which for the most part are still done in contemporary Orthodox Judaism. However, these practices have been modified following the Temple's destruction so that the heave element is no longer required or no longer performed at all. Because of this situation, there are redirects to this page, such as Terumah, which are simply inappropriate redirects. Terumah describes a set of contemporary practices in Orthodox Judaism which no longer involve heaving. Wikipedia needs text on these contemporary practices as they are performed in current Orthodox Judaism as well as information on the history of how its law and practice moved from its Biblical roots to its contemporary setting. A redirect of a contemporary practice to an article whose practice is based on an element of the practice that is no longer performed is inappropriate for a contemporary encyclopedia. One might as well redirect [[Mill to Waterwheel. Best, --Shirahadasha 23:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
