Pirkei Avot—The Misunderstood Masterpiece Ep. 2: The Rise of the House of Hillel
Meir Soloveichik
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Our Johnsons Have No Boswells
The modern approach, the de spiritualization of hille's words parallels the larger trend of secularizing and ethesizing a vote to day. In interpreting these statements one must look first and foremost to what we know about the biography of the individual than is stating a particular maxim. We do not have autobiographies from hie or any of the other individuals in avote. There is no genre of memoir in rubinic history - think how amazing that would be. The religious traditions of other faiths have extraordinary examples of spiritual memoirs. Our johnsons have no boswells. This is true. At the same time, if the first chapter of a vote describes the development of rabin
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