[Avodah] Humanoids Talmud Torah

[Ari Kahn]

On 22 בספט 2011, at 06:01 לפנה״צ, Meir Rabi <meirabi at gmail.com> wrote:
"I believe we have a duty to accept the words rulings and ideas of the Torah as absolute truth."

Therefore you need to learn them properly in order to know what the Pshat is

"The discussion of verses and MaAmerie Chazal, from my perspective is not necesssarily within the realm of Talmud Torah."

Would you make a birchas haTorah before reading these verses and Chazals? Could you learn it on tisha ba'v?...

I do find it strange discussing this as an abstract comment, you have not read the essay in question, and nonetheless seem quite opinionated. The chapter is not about humanoids, yet the possibility of the existence of such creatures does emerge.
By the way the book has a lot of other chapters as well :)

Ari Kahn



> By way of example, when Chazal have a “game” of suggesting various Pessukim to support various commonly held “street wisdoms” I suspect this is not TT.
> Reading the Torah, any verses in the Torah is certainly TT. That includes the Passuk Bereshis 6:4 which certainly sounds like it is talking about humanoids, or something to that effect.
> But I strongly suspect that our speculation about these things and the construction of mental and spiritual edifices which support significant religious life perspectives; I am shaken and fear possible negative consequences.
> I similarly am concerned that these edifices are perceived to be an equivalent to Talmud study. As a consequence learning Gemara is no longer deemed to be valuable, critical and of core significance.
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> Best,
> 
> Meir G. Rabi
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