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Kotzk Podcast 043: Did the Babylonian Talmud create the authoritative rabbi and the passive Jew?


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Did the Babylonian Talmud create the authoritative rabbi and the passive Jew? (Kotzk Blog 498)

This episode – based extensively on the research by Rabbi Dr Amir Mashiach[1] − explores the emergence of the rabbinic class after the failed Jewish revolts against the Romans during the first two centuries CE. Up to that point, the rabbis did not feature in leadership positions. On assuming power immediately after the failed military campaigns and revolts, the rabbis (and the Babylonian rabbis particularly) began to intensely promote passivity as the hallmark of the Torah Jew. Too many Jews had been killed during the wars and the rabbis saw passivity as the only way forward for Jewish survival into the future

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