What Is Greatness?
On Virtue and Complexity
I was struck by the question, “What Is Greatness,” when I revisited this passage in Pirkei Avot:
Greater is learning Torah than the priesthood and than royalty, for royalty is acquired by thirty stages, and the priesthood by twenty-four, but the Torah by forty-eight things…
Of course, the statement is offered by sages who devote their lives to learning T…
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