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There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. In this account (there are several) Moses ascends to heaven, where he finds God busily adding crownlike ornaments to the letters of the Torah. Moses asks God what He is doing and God explains that in the future there will be a man named Akiva, son of Joseph, who will base a huge mountain of Jewish law on these very orthographic ornaments. Intrigued, Moses asks G
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― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
― The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds
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You don't see the world as it is - you see the world as you are". - The Talmud
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― Hagigah. A Translation of the Treatise Chagigah From the Babylonian Talmud
― Hagigah. A Translation of the Treatise Chagigah From the Babylonian Talmud
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