peace it should reach, even the sounds that express that wish, all blend into an extraordinary unity. It can be translated but not transmitted. To return to the Trotsky story, there is a nice example of how the Rabbis could also read, or misread, a text. With this we also enter the difficult area of deciding when an interpretation is legitimately what the text intends (exegesis, ‘reading out’) and when it is a ‘reading in’ of our own values (eisegesis). Though it can be argued that all interpretation