{"id":7944,"date":"2015-07-28T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2015-07-28T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:30:46","slug":"everything-you-learn-in-school-contradicts-avot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/everything-you-learn-in-school-contradicts-avot\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you learn in school contradicts Avot"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everything you learn in school contradicts Avot (Abuoth) 1.10:<br \/>\n&#8220;Love what you do, avoid high ranking positions, and do not get too close to the powerful&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nAlso: &#8220;Torah learning is best combined with a worldly occupation, because the effort of both will keep one from sin. Study alone without work will in the end be nullified and lead to sin.&#8221; (2:2)<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nElsewhere (Avot 1.3): &#8220;Do not seek rewards&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n.\u05e9\u05de\u05e2\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d0\u05d1\u05d8\u05dc\u05d9\u05d5\u05df \u05e7\u05d1\u05dc\u05d5 \u05de\u05d4\u05dd .\u05e9\u05de\u05e2\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05e8, \u05d0\u05d4\u05d5\u05d1 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05dc\u05d0\u05db\u05d4, \u05d5\u05e9\u05e0\u05d0 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8\u05d1\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d5\u05d0\u05dc \u05ea\u05ea\u05d5\u05d3\u05e2 \u05dc\u05e8\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea<\/p>\n<p>PS- Also, the Talmud was put together as a corpus, inspired by the methods of and to have an alternative to the Roman School of Law of Beirut (Berytus). All the Beirut texts vanished during the earthquake. The Jews, having a diaspora, never had such problem because versions of the corpus were spread across the diaspora<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153203247488375&amp;id=13012333374\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you learn in school contradicts Avot (Abuoth) 1.10: &#8220;Love what you do, avoid high ranking positions, and do not get too close to the powerful&#8221;. &#8212; Also: &#8220;Torah learning is best combined with a worldly occupation, because the effort of both will keep one from sin. Study alone without work will in the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[1029,1030],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-avot","tag-talmud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7955,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions\/7955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}