At around the middle of rabbinical school, as I dove deeper into Tanakh and rabbinic law, and I had access both to modern academia and to traditional parshanut, I kept finding passages impossible to domesticate. At this point, my original strategy started to fail me and I could no longer ignore those passages, as their flaws and their human cost across the ages became clear to me.For more on this series, see here.
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