For anyone interested, I’ll be participating in a panel at this event sponsored by Arts and Lab. Should be an interesting and robust debate about the upcoming evolution of networks. My panel also features Rob Topolski, Richard Bennet, and Dave Farber.
Stay tuned . . .
This thread is pretty long, but worth reading if you want the "history of Judaism while standing on one leg Twitter version."
Since people seem to be a little fuzzy sometimes about what Jews have been doing since, you know, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, a little basic (textual) history:
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Or some of both. Hey, we're complicated.
So. The Mishnah, often known as the Oral Torah, was either given by God at Sinai to Moses (along with the written Torah) or developed organically over time, depending on your theology. We DO know that the Mishnah was redacted around 150-200 CE by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi.
There’s no Judeo-Christian tradition. And that’s ok.
But it’s important for interfaith dialogue, coexistence, basic respect and historical accuracy to not conflate Judaism and Christianity. Two different faiths, traditions, theologies, histories. The origin & relationship to text is overlapping in some cases, yes, but...
And yes, then there was an Ashkenazi gloss—the Rema was from what’s now Poland. And Rashi was from France. And Rebbeinu Gershom lived in France and Germany. Etc. But to say that even half of the major moments that shaped Jewish thinking happened under Christian rule is way off.
Interesting that not a single member of either panel is an ISP or has experience operating one. ISPs are being tried in absentia without opportunity to confront their “accusers.”