A D'var Torah from my father Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum Z"L published many years ago, but just as relevant today.
A careful study of Yaakov’s peace pact with Lovon, the world’s greatest swindler, will reveal some amazing similarities to today’s peace pacts with the Palestinians. While Lovon gave the name "Yigar Sahadusa," in Aramaic, to the place where he and Yaakov made peace with each other, Yaakov renamed it by its Hebrew equivalent, "Gal'ed". One wonders why the Torah bothers giving us the Aramaic name altogether? The Torah need only give us the Hebrew name, we can look up the Aramaic in the Targum, if we so desire! Rarely does the Torah use foreign words. Why here of all places? Why did Yaakov translate the agreement into Hebrew? What's wrong with the Aramaic version?
