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Shake your MIND up | the secret of the lulav and Jewish thinking
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Wanna shake up your mind? The lulav shaking in all directions teaches us how to properly engage in Torah dialectic. #talmud #sukkos #lulav #dialectics
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know that expression two Jews three
opinions
okay it could be even worse than that it
could be one Jew six opinions but it's
actually not a problem it's a good thing
it's actually a very good thing like
they say it's not a bug it's a feature
the way it works is this that when
you're learning Torah first this
approach seems correct and you're like
uh no then it's this approach and then
they're like uh no it's this approach uh
no it's this approach no it's this
approach no it's this approach and
finally you get all the different
approaches together and you come to a
conclusion called chakra vitaria back
and forth dialectic that's the way that
we do things we don't just go straight
we don't just have one question one
answer we look in all the different
directions we shake it up a little bit
in each different direction and that way
what happens is our finite Minds
collectively put together a picture of
paradoxes and contradictions that can
transcend our limitations and we get to
Glimpse the infinite and that's how we
learn Toyota it's always with a question
and answer refutation this opinion that
opinion back and forth until finally we
get a whole picture which simulates what
it's like to see things from an infinite
perspective is that inspiring
well how about this refute this
completely then I'll refute that and
you'll refute that and then we'll come
up with something satisfactory that a
good night