Originally published 11/22/07, 7:02 PM, Eastern Daylight Time.Link no longer works.
How does one learn haskafa in and from the gemara? We are often instructed in how to learn, but generally we are taught how to approach a sugya connected to Halacha. How, though, are we to learn a sugya in Hashkafa? The question is often more difficult in regards to deriving the philosophical concepts of the Talmud properly, for how do we further analyze whether we are truly understanding what the gemara is saying or whether we are just reading it into our own philosophical perspectives?
Tikva Hecht, a frequent contributor to Nishma, weighs in on this issue in an article she recently wrote for Kol Hamevaser. entitled "A Hebrew Beyond Hebrew." This article is available on line at:
http://media.www.yucommentator.com/media/storage/paper652/news/2007/11/05/KolHamevaser/A.Hebrew.Beyond.Hebrew-3079234.shtml.
We welcome your comments here both on Tikva's article and the general issue of how to properly derive philosophy from the Talmud
1 comment:
One does not learn haskafah from the gemara. One learns it from one's parents or, failing that, one's rebbe.
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