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How the Rabbis Saved the Bible's Most Dangerous Book
Ecclesiastes—Kohelet in Hebrew—opens with "vanity of vanities, all is vanity" and nearly got booted from the biblical canon. The School of Shammai argued it wasn't holy scripture, but the School of Hillel fought to keep it. To do so, they performed one of the most audacious acts of creative reinterpretation in literary history, turning a book of radical pessimism into a call for spiritual focus. This episode explores how the rabbis read contradictions as intentional dialectic, transformed the phrase "under the sun" into a heaven-earth dualism, and even rewrote entire verses to make the text…
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