Episode 44: Dr. Jacob Howland "Plato and the Talmud"
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Leo Strauss and the Politics of Wisdom
In the Talmud, it might be a case where your neighbors' tomatoes are leaning over onto your land. And then this kind of you can sort of on a diamond to some kind of metaphysical discussion about the Almighty and so forth. So having noticed this, I mentioned it to some people. Jacob Newstner, the sort of great Talmud scholar, was visiting and he said, gosh, there's this similarity. He says, oh, you should write a book on it; I thought, that's a bridge too far. Then we had Rabbi Irving Greenberg again and he told me: why not? And once I got into it, I began to rethink what I had read
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