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Emes: Translation Not Truth

By Elie Schulman

Every English translation of Maimonides renders the Hebrew word אֱמֶת as "truth." That rendering sends you somewhere you didn't intend to go. This book begins with a translation problem — and follows it into questions about existence, knowledge, disagreement, and what any human being can claim to know.

17 chapters · 5 parts · Published by Cohort Learning Labs

Elie Schulman

I run Cohort Learning Labs, where I build tools and frameworks for people who teach and lead. I've spent years studying the intersection of Jewish intellectual tradition and modern practice — how ancient texts speak to questions we're still asking, and how translation shapes (and sometimes distorts) the answers.

My books are free because the ideas in them shouldn't have a price gate. If something I wrote changed how you think, that's the return I'm looking for.

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Ezer Knegdo

A book about partnership, marriage, and what the Torah actually means when it describes the creation of Eve — and why the standard translations got it wrong.

The Grammar of Mind

How the structure of language shapes thought, and what happens when we inherit frameworks that were built for a different set of questions.

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