What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

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What Is Greatness?

What Is Greatness?

On Virtue and Complexity

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Zohar Atkins
Feb 12, 2021
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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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