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(13 posts)Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, whose writings have been a blessing to many of us, recounts this story of Talmudic logic in his book Jewish Humor: What The Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews:
A young man in his mid-twenties knocks on the door of the noted scholar Rabbi Shwartz. My name is Sean Goldstein, he says. Ive come to you because I wish to study Talmud.
Do you know Aramaic? the rabbi asks.
No, replies the young man.
Hebrew? asks the Rabbi.
No, replies the young man again.
Have you studied Torah? asks the Rabbi, growing a bit irritated.
No, Rabbi. But dont worry. I graduated Berkeley summa cum laude in philosophy, and just finished my doctoral dissertation at Harvard on Socratic logic. So now, I would just like to round out my education with a little study of the Talmud.
I seriously doubt, the rabbi says, that you are ready to study Talmud. It is the deepest book of our people. If you wish, however, I am willing to examine you in logic, and if you pass that test I will teach you Talmud.
The young man agrees.
Rabbi Shwartz holds up two fingers. Two men come down a chimney. One comes out with a clean face, the other comes out with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?
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