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Leon Kass: The Taming of the Shrewd S1 E23

Meditations with Zohar

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Yitzhak After the Akhedah

The story is sort of like almost like an optical illusion because you can kind of read Yitzhak very critically and see him in some sense as a person who's literally blinded to what's going on. So I also kind of see it as a hopeful story that sometimes a generation doesn't really know what it's doing, but nonetheless it can still play a part in passing the tradition on even as it's alienated. And so if Yitzhak after the Akhedah can wind up realigned, that's a very hopeful story.

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