In order to live in a mutual relationship and community with each other, despite our disagreements, we need to truly hear the rightness in the other's "wrong" position and the wrongness in our "right" positions. If we can hear that, we can replace our shorthand ideological thinking with practical-ethical wisdom.

In this class we use a case study from a seemingly abstruse aspect of Jewish law to show us how to argue together with each other - how to wisely internalize and share each other's true considerations and priorities.

Elisha Ancselovits teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, and in the new Yeshivat HaHakshava web of former students turned colleagues who share the Hakshava method. He is also a fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He has published in English and Hebrew on Jewish law as Common Sense and on its history. And he is completing a multi-volume history of the Jews, written through the lens of Jewish law as practical wisdom.