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>>Subject: Talmudic wisdom
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>>A Priest meets his friend, the Rabbi, and says to him, "You have taught me
>>many things but there is one thing in particular I want to learn very much
>>but you do not wish to teach it to me. I want you to teach me the Talmud."
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>>The Rabbi replied: "You are a Non-Jew and you have the brain of a Non-Jew.
>>There is no chance that you will succeed in understanding the Talmud."
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>>But the Priest continued in his attempt to persuade the Rabbi to teach him
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>>the Talmud.
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>>Finally, the Rabbi agreed. The Rabbi then said to the Priest: "I agree to
>>teach you the Talmud on condition that you answer one question."
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>>The Priest agreed and asked the Rabbi, "What is the question?"
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>>The Rabbi then said to the Priest: "Two men fall down through the chimney;
>>one comes out dirty and the other comes out clean. Who of those two goes to
>>wash up?"
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>>"Very simple," replied the Priest. "The one who is dirty goes to wash up but
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>>the one who is clean does not go to wash up."
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>>The Rabbi then said to the Priest: "I told you that you will not succeed in
>>understanding the Talmud. The exact opposite happened. The clean one looks
>>>>at the dirty one and thinks that he is also dirty, goes to wash up. The
>>>>dirty one, on the other hand, looks at the clean one and thinks that he is
>>also clean and, therefore, does not go to wash up."
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>>The Priest then says to the Rabbi: "This I did not think of. Ask me,
>>please, another question."
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>>The Rabbi then said to the Priest: "Two men fall down through the chimney;
>>one comes out dirty and the other comes out clean. Who of those two goes to
>>wash up?"
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>>The Priest then says to the Rabbi: "Very simple. The clean one looks at the
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>>dirty one and thinks he is also dirty and goes to wash up. The dirty one on
>>the other hand, looks at the clean one and thinks that he is also clean and,
>>therefore, does not go to wash up."
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>>The Rabbi then says to the Priest: "You are wrong again.
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>>I told you that you will not understand. The clean one looks into the
>>mirror, sees that he is clean and, therefore, does not go to wash up. The
>>dirty one looks into the mirror, sees that he is dirty and goes to wash up."
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>>The Priest complains to the Rabbi, "But you did not tell me that there is a
>>mirror there."
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>>The Rabbi then tells the Priest: "I told you. You are a Non-Jew; with your
>>brain you will not succeed in understanding the Talmud. According to the
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>>Talmud, you have to think of all the possibilities."
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>>"All right," groaning, said the Priest to the Rabbi. "Let us try once more.
>>Ask me one more question."
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>>For the last time, the Rabbi then said to the Priest: "Two men fall down
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>>through the chimney; one comes out dirty and the other comes out clean. Who
>>of those two goes to wash up?"
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>>"That is very simple!" replied the Priest. "If there is no mirror there the
>>clean one will look at the dirty one and will think that he is also dirty
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>>and will, therefore, go to wash up. The dirty one will look at the clean one
>>and will think that he is also clean, and will, therefore, not go to wash
>>up. If there is a mirror there, the clean one will look into the mirror and
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>>will, therefore, not go to wash up. The dirty one will look into the mirror
>>and will see that he is dirty and will, therefore, go to wash up.
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>>The Rabbi then says to the Priest: "I told you that you would not succeed in
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>>understanding. You are a Non-Jew; you have a Non-Jew brain. Tell me, how is
>>it possible for two men to fall through a chimney and for one to come out
>>dirty and the other to come out clean?"
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