Talmud for Sotah 65:2
איצטריך משום דכתיב שמע
only in the holy tongue, wherefore had the All-Merciful to write 'And [these words] shall be'? — It is necessary because it is written 'Hear'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he were of the opinion that the Torah can only be read in Hebrew, it would necessarily apply to the Shema'. Why, then, should he draw a conclusion from shall be? He does so to oppose the inference which the Rabbis draw from Hear. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
After the last prophets, Haggai, Zacariah, and Malachi, died, the Holy Ghost stopped from them, but nevertheless they were using the disembodied voice209Tosephta 13:3; Babli 48b. In the Tosephta: “nevertheless they (the Heavenly Court) were communicating the disembodied voice.”. If happened that Simeon the Just heard a disembodied voice coming out of the holiest-of-holies saying: Gaius Caligula was killed and his decisions became void.210Tosephta 13:6, Babli 33a. At least one of the names mentioned here cannot be correct. It happened that young men went to fight at Antiochia when Joḥanan the High Priest heard a disembodied voice coming out of the holiest-of-holies saying: The young people are victorious who fought at Antiochia. At that time they wrote down the exact time and found that it happened exactly at that hour211Tosephta 13:5, Babli 33a. It was remarked that the voice spoke Aramaic which is not understood by angels..
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