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שאל לפני 7 שנים

Hello Rabbi Michi,
First of all, thank you very much for the interesting lessons.
I wanted to ask about the process you presented in class following the demonstration of the text generator.
I will preface this with a note: I am not an expert or knowledgeable in the writings of the Rabbis, yet I immediately recognized the authentic passage. The main reason (along with more minor problems of syntax and structure in the first few passages) is my ability to discern a clear conceptual structure in certain sentences in the fourth passage, following my recent reading of Rabbi Yosef Avivi's book, which deals with revealing structures (mainly in a Kabbalistic context) in a very large part of Rabbi Kook's teachings. His project is based on a very deep and extensive acquaintance with the entirety of the Rabbis' thought, and with the breadth of Kabbalistic thought, an acquaintance through which he is able to find consistency, connections of formulation, and conceptual structures, and on which he builds an interpretive system based solely on the text. (Which, of course, can be agreed with or disagreed with.) My question is whether it can actually be said that your identification of texts of a certain type as Rorschach blots is problematic because it is not based on sufficient familiarity with a particular form of formulation, specific content on which the author relies, and a style with structures that can be discerned in a wider range. For the sake of this matter: the passages of Reka or articles in the style of your articles will be easier for you to understand directly as classified under prose text, because you are more deeply rooted in their content world, the form of formulation, the conceptual contexts, and so on, in contrast to many other texts that experts in a specific field will see as such, and to the extent that people with a limited knowledge/expertise/familiarity will see as "Rorschach-like". For the sake of this matter, a secular person who tries to read a text of Reka will be incapable of directly understanding the prosaic meaning, but will be able to use it as a Rorschach blot, depending on his talent. On the other hand, in your reading of Hasidic texts/Rabbi Kook/(perhaps even poetry of a certain type) and so on, you will not be able to extract the same meaning that an expert like Rabbi Avivi could extract from a random passage of the HaRai, a good scholar of Bialik from his poetry, or an expert with a sufficient level of knowledge, experience and proficiency from a text by Rabbi Nachman, and so on.
I would appreciate your response, and thank you again for the lessons and articles.


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מיכי צוות ענה לפני 7 שנים
It's certainly possible, although I doubt it.

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