Saturday, September 05, 2020
Trivialities
Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), Invitation to the Talmud (1998; rpt. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2003), p. 80:
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[T]he rabbis regarded trivialities as part, as the very heart of Torah, God's revealed will. It is not because they were themselves small-minded, or because they had nothing better to do than investigate the reason behind, the logic for, niggling details. It is because to them "life" as an abstraction is nothing, but all the things that, together, add up the way of living—these are everything.
