Mistakes Of Gedolim

 

Mori V'Rabi Harav Hagaon Reb Shlomo Miller Shlita  said,  "The Velt (people of the world) has two misconceptions on Gedolim. 1) A גדול can't make mistakes. 2) If they make a mistake they are not a גדול anymore. Both statements are untrue."  In this week’s  Parsha  (ויקהל) one of the גדולי המפרשים made a mistake with the translation of the word ועשה. ועשה בצלאל- כל מלאכת עבודת הקדש  He mistakenly translated  And  בצלאל made (past tense)  The תרגום אונקלס  has also been mistakenly changed  from ויעביד V’yabeid (He shall do) to ועבד Vavad (He did). The Ibn Ezrah (36 -1) and Rashi in מכות י"ב ע"א  both say, ועשה is a command ( future)  And בצלאל shall make etc.  The ו (Vav) of ועשה changes the word from past tense to future tense  it is said in the name of the מהרי"ל דיסקין “When being מעביר סדרה you should say in the Targum  ויעביד V’yabeid and not the way it is printed in the Chumashim* ועבד “ Vavad” otherwise you are not יוצא שניים מקרא *The new עוז והדר חומש corrected the Targum to ויעביד.