tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5091793501745676624..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Christmas ShoppingYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-24862478612372767262009-11-30T02:28:43.205+02:002009-11-30T02:28:43.205+02:00Well, I don't look to the Talmud for consensus...Well, I don't look to the Talmud for consensus, but rather for the justification of various arguments.<br /><br />I will say, however, that I imagine reading this book is very different from reading a page of real Talmud. The text is not centered on the page with commentaries surrounding it, but merely offers the text and then all of the commentaries following it, with no good distinction between the commentaries. Very confusing.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099017972456573744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-33965390035959039022009-11-29T23:03:54.430+02:002009-11-29T23:03:54.430+02:00I assure you, Bryan, that you're missing an im...I assure you, Bryan, that you're missing an important passage. Not because of being a goy or not: simply, it is so gigantic no-one sees it all. Just recently our congregation's rabbi told how in a discussion with one of the greatest scholars of our age - and I mean, top-notch great - it transpired that the source he was citing was one the sage had never seen.<br /><br />As for what "the Talmud has to say" - well, not really possible in any case. A nation of compulsive talkers, talking for centuries: what's the chance there will be consensus except in the broadest terms?Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-62580348892703246622009-11-29T21:33:16.884+02:002009-11-29T21:33:16.884+02:00I have that book. As a goy, I find it absolutely f...I have that book. As a goy, I find it absolutely fascinating. Of course, since it's a selection, it's difficult to cull an idea of what "the Talmud" has to say about any given subject, because you don't know whether you're missing an important passage somewhere.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099017972456573744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-67745647363498345982009-11-29T16:59:06.385+02:002009-11-29T16:59:06.385+02:00Perhaps you should send a copy to each of the peop...Perhaps you should send a copy to each of the people named in this hate-fest organized by the BDS crowd to celebrate Xmas in the UK:<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/ylck3el <br /><br />Celebrating Xmas in the UK certainly seems different from the way its done in America.AKUSnoreply@blogger.com