tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post6179397890868080611..comments2024-03-18T09:18:57.616+00:00Comments on Howard Cooper's Blog: ‘Colourless green ideas...’Howard Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499147712266456601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post-77704465071966430952010-03-14T17:36:46.856+00:002010-03-14T17:36:46.856+00:00Interesting that at Limmud a common theme of many ...Interesting that at Limmud a common theme of many of the sessions I went to was the danger of certainty - even some very Orthodox teachers warmed to this theme. Above all, in one of her sessions on "In Pursuit of Passion: Pride, Truths and Uncertainty in the Jewish search," the amazing Arno Poupko Fisher talked of the stress that the Ishbitzer Rebbe (of all people) placed on the dangers of thinking you know. He actually said, "Certainty is idolatry." Would that some of Jewish fundamentalists (who actually admire the Ishbitser Rebbe) rad and absorbed what he and Nacjman of Bratzlav had to say on the subject!Robert Stonenoreply@blogger.com