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How the Talmud Outlived Every Book Burning
In 1242, twenty-four wagonloads of Talmud manuscripts were burned in Paris. The tradition survived anyway — and that survival tells us something profound about how knowledge actually persists. This episode traces the chain of transmission from oral tradition through codification, from the Cairo Geniza to the CD-ROM era, and finally to Sefaria's open-source library and its MCP server, which now lets AI agents navigate the Jewish canon as a structured knowledge graph. The question at the center: is an AI agent querying Sefaria a node in the transmission network, or just a very sophisticated…
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