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Leon Kass: The Taming of the Shrewd S1 E23

Meditations with Zohar

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What Do You Think We Can Learn From Isaac?

Adam and Eve make the fig leaf themselves. It's the first invention to cover their shame, but it's inadequate. God sows them animal skins which is a certain early gloss on the inadequacy of human craft. So what do you think we can learn from Isaac about the good and the bad about the difficulty and importance of transmission? What does he teach us that we need to hear now about sort of the weight of tradition and also how difficult it can be to pass it on?

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