Virtiual

Jewish Law and the Politics of Disagreement: Hillel and Shammai Revisited Of all the contributions of Talmudic culture to the Jewish world, the most central is the positive power of dispute, or machloket. Not all types of dispute, mind you, but rather disputes for the sake of heaven. These questions were explored first and foremost through the stories and disputes of Hillel and Shammai and their students, perhaps the first dispute within Judaism that did not lead to a schism,…