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Rebrewing of Abrahamic Texts that are Beyond Completion

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17.06.2026

The Babylonian Talmud is a work beyond completion,

which may help to explain

why God invented not just Tosafot,

but Aharonim, who weren’t born in time to be called  Rishon,

great rabbis who attempted to unravel the

Gemara’s Gordian knot.

Kafka tried to unravel it in human beings’ trials,

but he never managed.

It seems each time that he came close, it completely vanished.

This would have happened to his writings too had they not be saved

by his good friend in Prague, Franz Brod,

preserved as Moses preserved Israelites, his prayers preventing threats of their destruction that had been

pronounced on them by God.

An interesting  connection between  masterpieces in Hebrew and Aramaic, and classics that are

is that the bottom lines of their great magna opera lack, although tamim, blameless, a completion,

inspiring readers to pursue paths that may lead to more perfection

the texts, enhancing thus the flavor the original produced in Greek or

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