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Liba's avatar

Nice story. One could also ask the opposite: what if Freud, Einstein, Marx (!), Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein ) etc would have learned in yeshiva? My guess is they may have been Talmidei Chachamim, but we might never have heard of them.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

There is a well known story about the Brisker Rav ZL who was once asked a Kashe and thought it was so superb a kashe it had to be mentioned in at least a Rishon Ultimately the Kasher was discovered have its roots in a Tosefta

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Willow Noa's avatar

This rocks and I'm emotionally invested

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Harold Landa's avatar

Try the Telepathy tapes. Cute but I’m not convinced….

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