What rabbi Eliezer ruled was clean
Gamaliel's camp burned, just to be sure
harsh Martinet as the Yeshiva's dean
he'd overrule haShem to judge what's pure.
Akiva volunteered to bear the news
they'd not confer in council, anymore
hereafter, sussing out the laws for Jews
would be informal, always out of door.
New answers must be found in the old Book
by those who bring their questions with new eyes
a whole technology of how to look
and which conclusion they can authorize
The Talmud's harsh on those who'd bear a grudge
where there's no chesed, there's no valid Judge
Gamaliel's camp burned, just to be sure
harsh Martinet as the Yeshiva's dean
he'd overrule haShem to judge what's pure.
Akiva volunteered to bear the news
they'd not confer in council, anymore
hereafter, sussing out the laws for Jews
would be informal, always out of door.
New answers must be found in the old Book
by those who bring their questions with new eyes
a whole technology of how to look
and which conclusion they can authorize
The Talmud's harsh on those who'd bear a grudge
where there's no chesed, there's no valid Judge
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