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Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)

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The Importance of Prophecy in Jewish Philosophy

There's a debate in Jewish philosophy between my monodies and Yehuda Hailevi about whether prophecy is divinely gifted or something that you can achieve. And Leo Strauss wrote on this, though I think probably not a believer. He suggested that as with the works of Plato and Hume, the fact that it was done as a conversation and dialogue meant many things were deliberately unsaid.

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