A group was discussing Karl Marx and the similarities between his dialectic reasoning and פלפול. “If Marx had been born a hundred years earlier,” one of the men said, “he would have written a great חיבור which would be מפלפל on ביצה שנולדה ושלא נולדה או עילאה גבר ותתאה גבר או טעם כעיקר and the like. Indeed, even he was born when he was born, but without a thumb on his right hand, which is essential for פלפול, he wouldn’t have written Das Kapital.”

18/04/2020