The 8th of Teves and Chasam Sofer's Fascination with it

In this episode we cover:  A bit on the Chabad celebration of 5 Teves, "Yom Didan Natzach" Background on Megillas Taanis - both the Tannaitic and Geonic versions Attitudes toward the translation of the Torah into Greek - in Chazal and among other groups The Chasam Sofer's fascination with the 8th of Teves as the day commemorating the translation Links  to articles mentioned: Moshe Simon-Shoshan, "The Tasks of the Translators: The Rabbis, The Septuagint, and the Cultural Politics of Translation" Maoz Kahana, "How Chatam Sofer Vanquished Spinoza" (Hebrew) Elli Fischer, "Azariah de Rossi's Fascination with the Septuagint"