[Avodah] Yeshivat Shem Vaever

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>Last week we were looking at the nature of Yeshivat Shem vaEver. RRJ  cited R
Kanievsky as saying they taught yir'as Shamayim.
The Rambam seems  to turn the yeshivah into a Plato-like Academy of
philosophy -- a group of  thinkers who came together to share thoughts,
debate, and hone their minds,  or to listen to the more skilled do so.< 
[--RMB]
>>

RSBA then  asked:
>>Who were the other talmidim  there?<<

>>>>>
They must have been goyim, since there weren't any Jews.  They were  probably 
cousins of ours, descendants of Shem, although descendants of Cham and  Yefes 
could have been there too.  They would have been tzaddikei umos  ha'olam, 
goyim who believed in one G-d and were moral, upright  people.





--Toby  Katz
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