It’s like 1800 years of Rabbis arguing with each other about every fucking thing you could imagine and a surprising number of things you never thought of. These guys have sat down and hashed out moral conundrums you would never dream up in your wildest imaginings.
So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?
What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you’re renovating a basement?
The Sages say Let it be so, only know one’s limits and always Remember that all things leak
[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]
[It begins leaking]
What in the goddamn
Yes.
Yes it does.
It’s like 1800 years of Rabbis arguing with each other about every fucking thing you could imagine and a surprising number of things you never thought of. These guys have sat down and hashed out moral conundrums you would never dream up in your wildest imaginings.