Noted author Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was on an airplane and started to chat with the person next to him.
Eventually, that man asked him, 'what do you do for a living?" And rabbi Kaplan responded, "I'm a rabbi." And the man answered, "Oh, you're a rabbi! You know, I don't know much about Judaism, or much about any religion, actually, but I’ve always thought that when you get right down to it, what all of religion is really trying to say is, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
And Rabbi Kaplan says, "Interesting you would think that. What do you do for a living? And the man responds, "I'm an astrophysicist." To which Rabbi Kaplan answers, "Oh, an astrophysicist! Well, I don't know much about astrophysics, but I've always thought that when you get right down to it, what all of astrophysics is really trying to say is, "Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are...."
-Rabbi David Ebstein
Nothing is simple, unless we have already decided that we know everything. Better to be a vessel that allows for new information nd understanding than one that is already full.
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