Chabad Prints Tanya In Arabic

Following the dictates of its late rebbe to make the foundational work of Chabad hasidut available in every language, Chabad in Israel has published and Arabic translation of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Lyadi's Tanya.

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[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

ما شاء لله!

[FM Fan]

Let them line up to distribute them in Gaza.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

oh! this must have been done to let the arabs 'know' that there is nothing good in their souls?
i keep wondering if these trolls are just foolish? or really thoroughly wicked and nefarious?

[Yosef ben Matitya]

ما شاء لله!

cool, CR, I hasten to add:
الله اکبر والعزه للعرب
:-)

[SatmarRebbe]

There are many Jews who count Arabic as their mother tongue. They are merely trying to make their philosophy available to them

[Abu Jihad Schneerson]

So the Arabs will have a new weapon against the Jews;they'll say:"Look at what is written in the book of the most influential and wide-spread Jewish sect of our times;it clearly speaks about superior and inferior neshamot and says the Jews are ubermenschen while all goyim are inferior untermenschen created only to serve them!They constantly complain about antisemitism but Hitler himself could not write such a racist pamphlet!!"
Clever,really very clever move.....

[Russian PhD]

One of the languages that you do not need to translate Tanya to is German. You can just use Main Kampf with few corrections: Jewish->Gentile, Aryan->Jewish, Furher->Rebbe Nossi Doreynu, and all work is done.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Holy Shīʿite!!

This is surely a bad move, the end is near.

[Dave]

The Arabs have their superstitious mystical idiots, just like us. Maybe one of them will just copy the Tanya and change the words to being Muslims are Hashem's elect and non-Muslims have animal souls etc.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Coming soon, Sayyid Qutb's writings in Yiddish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb

[Yosef ben Matitya]

There are many Jews who count Arabic as their mother tongue. They are merely trying to make their philosophy available to them

yes, like the rambam and rasag. though these two, if alive would feel nauseated with the tanya.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Holy Shīʿite!!

BeenThereDoneThat
kidding aside, I always think of chabad as the shiites among the jews. always different, spiteful, represent themselves as wronged etc...

[Lo K'darkah]

It will sit next my copy of 'The Koran in Yiddish.'

[spacedout BT]

Before we wax judgmental can someone check to confirm that this is not a translation into Iranian for Iranian Jews who need it????

[R. Wisler]

SpacedOutBT,

Arabic and Farsi (that's the language spoken in Iran) are two totally unrelated languages.

Here's a website that will clarify things for you.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060914203607AAIjVXq

[mendel]

Here is a balanced review of Chabad Today which explains why the Tanya was printed in Arabic.
How could it have escaped Shmarya's attention?
Once you view it the raison d'etre for this blog will be obviated.
New Documentary Presents Chabad Beliefs
A new documentary titled "The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Prepare for the Coming of Moshiach" was aired this Sunday on Israel's Channel 10, purporting to reveal the "Secret to Chabad's growth" and focusing on the inherent belief of Chabad Chassidim that the Rebbe is Moshiach and will redeem us speedily in our days ● The new documentary interviews some of Chabad's most public figures and successful Shluchim, such as Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Rabbi Avraham Shemtov - Chabad Shliach to Philadelphia and Rabbi Yossi Carlebach - Chabad Shliach to Central New Jersey.
www.chabadinfo.com/index.php?url=article_en&id=29763

[spacedout BT]

R.WISLER- I'm totally aware of the difference between Arabic and Farsi thank you but isn't it possible that the Tanya in reference is really printed in Farsi?

[Russian PhD]

BT,
You lost your brain when become Baal Teshuva-or you never had one? If the text says “Arabic”, why should it mean “Farsi”, “Chinese”, or “Inuit”? Can you guys read simple text and follow its direct meaning, or you need to be supervised 24/7 by spiritual authorities which say you how to read and how to understand, like with your fucking Gemora?

About “Iranian Jews who need it”-the last thing they need is primitive and meaningless text written by a hateful psychopath 200 years ago.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Russian PhD
Pls put hatred aside for a moment. Farsi is written in arabic script. Many Farsi technical and philosophical words, are borrowed from Arabic. The photo above renders the title in what could be arabic or a farsi.
Iranian Jews often pray from bilingual prayer books - hebrew and farsi.
Chabad in the US, runs camps for Iranian Jewish kids, and advertise in farsi on farsi tv stations in the US.
For a self proclaimed PhD, you express yourself more like a latrine keeping muzhik of yore. Not surprising, Russia of drunken Yeltsin, Rasputin, Putin, Stalin, the tsars are no different one from the other. Savage and graceless.

[Pure Sephardic]

A Moroccan Arabic translation was done decades ago and I own a copy

[Russian PhD]

Yosef ben Matitya,

One Russian latrine keeping muzhik costs thousands of pious parasites from Brooklyn, Bnei Brak, or Meah Shaarim.

[Russian PhD]

"A Moroccan Arabic translation was done decades ago and I own a copy":

When you finish shitting after Hammin, clean your pure sepahrdic ass with this copy. This is the best way of use for this type of books.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

When you finish shitting after Hammin, clean your pure sepahrdic ass with this copy. This is the best way of use for this type of books.

oh! shit must have been the topic of his thesis. that or a severe obsession of anal complex.

[shosh]

This is not the first one. There was one printed 20-30 years ago. It was printed using Hebrew letters but was in Arabic language.

There are many of our fellow Jews who this is their primary language.

[shosh]

Here is a video interview with Rabbi David Bouskila who translated the Tanya in to Arabic in the 70’s

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Rabbi David Bouskila
amazing, tks shosh.
I read the cover of Igeret hateshuva, and r' bouskila indicates he did it in accordance with the jewish maghrebi dialect, which is somewhat different than the cover given in this post. (although in this posting, the page given is that of the hard cover with only 2 words in classic arabic).

[Hopeful]

has anybody here actually studied the whole Tanya in depth?