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Talmud Yerushalmi vs Bavli

The following is one approach as to why our practice (for the most part) follows the Bavli over the Yerushalmi. Those practicing current, normative Judaism today are, in general, the inheritors and ...
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The search for invariants

Modern science concludes that nature is always optimizing. Between two points, light takes the path it can cross in the least time. Soap bubbles form so as to minimize surface area. When an object ...
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