“One can say that where the prophets failed; the sages succeeded.”
The first woman to win the Israel Prize for Talmud made the above statement in an interview in the Jerusalem Post.
This week I am finishing teaching the Book of Isaiah, so the prophetic word is very much in my mind. And I find this statement fascinating.
This would be fun topic of conversation with those somewhat familiar with the message of the prophets and later Jewish history. For now, I decided I would put it out here as a placeholder of sorts. Perhaps I can come back to it later. In any case, the statement won’t be entirely lost to me.