The Jews revere the Torah as the word of God inscribed, and the Talmud as the word of God made explicit. Explicit in the sense of ‘made tangible by engagement’. The Talmud is a series of discussions, predicated on the memories of an oral tradition (Mishnah), and the rigorous obsessions of rational minds seeking perfection. Emmanuel Levinas was a post-war French philosopher, operating in the...
Perceptions of wisdom in the Talmud with Emmanuel Levinas
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