Students Learn from Ancient Scrolls From the Days of the Vilna Gaon

Why preserve ancient words? I can hear the response of one of my Jewish professors from college days as clearly as if I were sitting in his classroom today: “Such a question!” In those days it was assumed that college professors were repositories of the accumulated knowledge of the generations and that students were empty heads waiting to be filled. But that was two generations ago, and tim

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