shkoyech, glad to see this project is moving into the next phase.
you write: "When the aggregation of formalized rules grows unwieldy, when the rules become detached from the intuitions that once generated them [...] the spiral, which depends on each phase feeding the other, stops being productive. [...] I believe this is roughly where we are now."
Is there a precedent to this? has there been some other period(s) in Jewish history where the spiral spiraled off its hinges, and by some process reset into productive mode?
shkoyech, glad to see this project is moving into the next phase.
you write: "When the aggregation of formalized rules grows unwieldy, when the rules become detached from the intuitions that once generated them [...] the spiral, which depends on each phase feeding the other, stops being productive. [...] I believe this is roughly where we are now."
Is there a precedent to this? has there been some other period(s) in Jewish history where the spiral spiraled off its hinges, and by some process reset into productive mode?
good question
Could you please provide more concrete examples of crystallization vs intuition?
I'll be drilling down on those in future posts. If I don't give examples then, shout.