Hey there, and welcome back to take one, the podcast. That brings you just one

Caliente page of Tom at each day and I meet it because today's Daph

Menachat 17 is keeping things hot and spicy. Look, sometimes you have to read on and on and on

and on in a page of Tomit to find something that catches your eye and sometimes you don't really

have to go any further than literally the first

line and the first line of today's page delivers an intricate halakhic teaching coming to us from

harifay the pompadita or the sharp spicy ones from the city of pompadita don't you wish someone referred to you as the sharp spicy one?

Well, the Talmud is referring here to two brothers, Ifa and Avini, the sons of Ravraha,

a fourth generation Amura in the city of Pompadita in Babylonia.

But just by giving us that word, Harifé, or the sharp, spicy ones,

the Talmud delivers a callback to one of its most fascinating and honestly most relevant

discussions. It's this. What sort of sage, scholar, honestly, really kind of leader,

should we honor and trust most?

Traditionally, the Talmud gives us two options.

There is Sinai, or Sinai, the kind of scholar that gets his or her name from, well, obviously,

the famous mountain on which the Torah was given.

A Sinai, a Sinai, is a person who memorizes a great deal of sources, who knows

the intricate teaching inside and out, who excels at wrote learning and could finish a verse

for you if only you gave them the first few words. There are just kind of like huge catalogs

that retain all the knowledge they have ever learned. And that is a great, amazing, enviable skill to have.

But then there's the other kind.

Oker Harim, or the person who uproots mountains.

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