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Is Talmud the Jewish Constitution? A Conversation with Chaim Saiman

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What Happens if My Cow Gores Your Cow?

There have been criticisms within the jewish community about this, particularlya some strands in the hasidi community. There was a student of the friadic rebi who famously wrote an article saying that the only way to really make a talmod a spiritual experienceis you have to explain it through mysticism and through moretheological concepts. And when certain jews look at other jews, you know, talmutic thinking can either be mystifying, like what on earth are you doing? At best, at worst, it could be frustrating. It can be something that is kind of ridiculed. Where does the spirituality emerge from a saturday shabis afternoon conversation about tort negotiation? Sure

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