we are, as set out in the Rambam’s intro to the Yad, creatures of the Bavli. And we are the creation of the Anshei Knessses Hagedola who designed us as a nation going into an unknown limbo of landless and powerless golus, for a long haul. We were culturally distinct from our predecessors one we passed through Bavel, and we changed again in the Persian galus, and again in the present galus. in which Ramban likens us to the living dead. We can get a small sense of what we were from the Yerushalmi, but still, we must stick to the Rambam’s recipe. The trouble begins, when we are halfway restored to our birthright, then how should we be?
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