[Avodah] history

[Eli Turkel]

IIRC we also discussed the universal conservation of personalities
theory (that chazal had some message in these identifications)

The question is whether this identification of seemingly different
people is only for musar or similar reasons or else
is to be taken as real history. In particular the question arose about
learning halachot from these identifications boh by rishonim and by
chazal themselves
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Eli Turkel