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Celebrating Talmud
How could it be otherwise?
For even as the Temple burned
Our teachers gathered
Their thoughts
Their notes
And us
And made the Mishna and the Gemera
Our Temple in exile
The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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