Arthur Hertzberg relates that Kaplan would regularly tear apart the sermons students gave in homiletics class, a habit that one day prompted Hertzberg to repeat in his sermon, word for word, remarks that Kaplan had made the week before. Kaplan immediately stood up and tore the sermon apart. "But Dr. Kaplan," Hertzberg protested, "I'm only saying what you said last week." "Ah, but Arthur," came the reply, "I have learned something since then."
Dr. Arnold Eisen in “Kaplan's Judaism At Sixty: A Reappraisal”:
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