The Battle Over Wisdom - Part 1: Part 1
Many wars have been fought over oil, but only one over olive oil. What did the Greeks have against Jewish oil, and what contemporary message does this unusual battle hold for us?
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For those of us ba'alei teshuvah whose intellectual, highly educated families have harassed us for years because of our "non-rational," "superstitious" etc. etc. thought processes, this is a terrific class. It explains clearly what we've felt but haven't been able to verbalize about the world we left and the world we joined.