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Reading Hebrew is not about "opinion" or "theological insight".

Hebrew is all about INTUITION (knowledge that rises spontaneously from YOUR OWN heart).

The more you are SPIRITUALLY ALIVE, the more you will get out of every Hebrew sentence. It's a work-in-progress that lasts all of your lifetime.

And it's PERSONAL: every time you read (or re-read) a passage, it adds understanding to the level/dimension that you are currently capable of...

(You see, it's a never ending process: and that's exactly why I LOVE Hebrew and the Bible so much!!)

I always look it up in the original Hebrew if I really want to understand, and the difference is sometimes really HUGE (or simply wrong in modern translations).

It's also worth noting that some books of the Hebrew Bible are poetry (Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Song of Songs), which doesn't show at all after translation. Hebrew poetry is unique!

As they say, reading the Bible in translation is like "kissing your spouse through a veil".