What Is Called Thinking? · Aug 12, 2026
Who Gets to Say That a Rabbi Was Wrong?
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The Babylonian Talmud contains hundreds of occurrences of the word תיובתא, “refutation,” but comparatively few scenes in which a sage personally says, “I was wrong.” That difference is partly historical: the anonymous editorial voice of the Gemara often confronts a dead Amora (rabbinic sage) with material he may never have seen.
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