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No Talmudic tracate has a page one; the book always begins, so to speak, on the second page. An old explanation of this practice has it that by starting on page two, by not learning page one first, you know from the beginning of your studies that you will never 'know it all.'
I had a conversation with a great friend the other day about creation and 'knowing' creation. I thought this sentence (or two) summed it up pretty well. You can't 'know it all.' You can't 'know' creation; there is an epistemological fracture between the moments of creation (vis-a-vis page 1) and what exists to us.
Wes
