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Halakhah su Salmi 147:19

מַגִּ֣יד דברו [דְּבָרָ֣יו] לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב חֻקָּ֥יו וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטָ֗יו לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Dichiara la sua parola a Giacobbe, i suoi statuti e le sue ordinanze a Israele.

Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol II

Just as non-Jews are prohibited from studying Torah, so are Jews forbidden to teach Torah to gentiles. Tosafot, Haggigah 13a, declares that a Jew who causes a non-Jew to transgress in this manner is guilty of violating the commandment "You shall not place a stumbling block before the blind" (Leviticus 19:14).4Cf., Teshuvot Emunat Shmu’el, no. 14, cited by Pitḥei Teshuvah, Yoreh De‘ah 62:2 and R. Ben-Zion Blum, Tel Talpiyot, Sivan 5690. Moreover, the Gemara, Haggigah 13a, states that teaching Torah to a non-Jew is a violation of an admonition inherent in the words of the Psalmist, "He declareth His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances unto Israel. He hath not done so with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them" (Psalms 147:19-20). This verse, according to Tosafot, serves to establish a prohibition against teaching Torah to a non-Jew which is independent of any infraction on the part of the non-Jew.5Minḥat Ḥinnukh, no. 232, states that Rambam records the prohibition forbidding a non-Jew to study Torah but not the prohibition against a Jew teaching Torah to a gentile because, for Rambam, as distinct from Tosafot, the sole prohibition devolving upon the Jew is the general prohibition against placing a stumbling block before the blind. See also R. Shlomoh Yitzchak Levine, Ha-Pardes, Kislev 5710. R. Yechiel Ya‘akov Weinberg, Seridei Esh, II, no. 92, opines that since in “our day” there exist numerous translations of Scripture and there are non-Jewish scholars “capable of reading the Bible and Talmud” teaching such material to non-Jews does not constitute placing a “stumbling block” before them; cf., however, Teshuvot Besamim Rosh, no. 327.
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