“One can say that where the prophets failed; the sages succeeded.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first woman to win the Israel Prize for Talmud made the above statement in an interview in the Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}