THE GEOMETRIC EFFECT OF YAVNEH
Rabbi Dunner shares a strange anecdote from Talmud Yerushalmi, referencing a pasuk in Parshat Chukkat. How does Rabbi Yehoshua ben Kabsoi resolve a lifelong difficulty with this pasuk via the yeshiva in Yavneh that was established by Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai? Rav Meir Shapira of Lublin offers a beautiful explanation.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) With all the talk of “deals” and “final phases,” it feels a world away from those days — only recently — when Israel felt... Read More