<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Rich, Joel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JRich@sibson.com" target="_blank">JRich@sibson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I was struck by these 2 views of history. It would be interesting to consider where on the spectrum we as individuals and communities fall out.</div>
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Joel Rich</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br>Doesn't TANACH & many of the stories in the Gemorah contradict RSS's thesis? Good and bad stories are told of the same people or same types of people. I think both types are purposely put in to inspire us. Why conflate inspirational stories with history?<br>
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<div> And how does fulfilling the historian’s duty help us “face” the present and future? It is, of course, too soon to tell in any simple sense; but, although historians cannot predict the future, “there are certain things that the historian can and should
do. He can look at what has been happening and what is happening and see change developing.” By doing so, Lewis says, “he can formulate, I will not say predictions, but possibilities, alternative possibilities, things that may happen.”</div>
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<div>Rabbi Shimon Schwab & Historic Truth </div>
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<div>SNIP </div></font></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><div> What is gained by pointing out their inadequacies and their contradictions? We want to be inspired by their example and learn from their
experience... Rather than write the history of our forebears, every generation has to put a veil over the human failings of its elders and glorify all the rest which is great and beautiful. That means we have to do without a real history book. We can do without.
We do not need realism, we need inspiration from our forefathers in order to pass it onto posterity.</div>
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<div>Selected Writings (Lakewood, 1988)</div>
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