Toirah, these women hummed, iz di beste sechoirah
Mai Har Sinai? Har she- yardah sinah l’umos ha’olam alav. (Shabbos 89a)
It would seem that the hate is connected with our having received the Torah. Why is that? Do you feel this fierce, illogical hate toward someone who earns a PhD in molecular physics?
The hate, perhaps, is not about what we got, but more about what it means.
In every class, there is a kid who asks the rebbi a question just as the recess bell rings. (Later, as a rebbi, I discovered that the annoyance the kids feel toward their fellow student is not even close to… whatever.)
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