Parable and Exposition
Contemplative Life in a Potemkin Village
Jewish tradition describes every parable (mashal) as having an exposition (nimshal).
Divergent thinkers are partial to parable. Convergent thinkers are partial to exposition.
Poets dwell in possibility. Systematic thinkers dwell in operational definitions and logical conclusions.
The mashal is dense. The nimshal clarifies.
The mashal is imagistic. The nims…
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