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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>>Last week we were looking at the nature of Yeshivat Shem vaEver. RRJ
cited R<BR>Kanievsky as saying they taught yir'as Shamayim.<BR>The Rambam seems
to turn the yeshivah into a Plato-like Academy of<BR>philosophy -- a group of
thinkers who came together to share thoughts,<BR>debate, and hone their minds,
or to listen to the more skilled do so.< [--RMB]<BR>>><BR><BR>RSBA then
asked:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>>>Who were the other talmidim
there?<<<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>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.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Check out AOL Money & Finance's list of the <A title="http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001" href="http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001" target="_blank">hottest products</A> and <A title="http://money.aol.com/top5/general/ways-you-are-wasting-money?NCID=aoltop00030000000002" href="http://money.aol.com/top5/general/ways-you-are-wasting-money?NCID=aoltop00030000000002" target="_blank">top money wasters</A> of 2007.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>