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Should Jews study philosophy? (NO) - a Passover Message

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Rabbi Josh Zebberman

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so there's an important distinction between studying philosophy versus studying truth philosophy evolves over time it changes from person to person from age to Stage truth doesn't change truth was is and will be if it's true it's true across the board ironically we discuss the Passover story we read the Haggadah and we've been reading the same text for thousands of years you'd think that the relevance of the text would be different and would vary from person to person perhaps are questions that we ask would mature would evolve but yet we're still going through the same text and the reason is because we're not trying to philosophize the Passover story we're trying to see what truths it can teach us what is the truth about being free not the philosophy of Freedom that may change from person to person it's not real freedom but the truth of for free