But in any case, it is probably better not to know what he is trying to challenge or balance. Is it a law of primitive societies or a law of a dystopian future?
, and if it does, then it would be better not to know it. But in fact, Benjamin is not entirely right about the aggada. It does not really explain the Halakhah, but rather contradicts it, or balances it in some way. So apparently Kafka does...
Walter Benjamin believes that Kafka's stories are a kind of aggada that, like the Talmudic aggada, according to Benjamin, should explain the Halakhah corresponding to it. But the halakha corresponding to Kafka, i.e., the Law, does not exist....
Oh, I haven't been here for a while....Should I give to Twitter a chance again? Meanwhile, notice Jael Wilfand's and yours truly's freshly published article. "Rome in the Babylonian Rabbinic Imagination. "You know how to obtain it. https://t.co/rTjP1sXI2b