Earlier Public Excerpt
Emes: Translation Not Truth
This public PDF preserves an earlier translation-focused version of the opening chapter. It is not the current canonical Emes manuscript.
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This historical excerpt mixes the Emes inquiry with translation-process material now governed separately in the Ibn Tibbon project. It remains available for provenance while the current manuscript proceeds through controlled reconciliation.
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English translations of Maimonides commonly render the Hebrew word אֱמֶת as "truth." The current Emes project treats that as an ontological problem and remains separate from the Ibn Tibbon materials about the process and limits of translation. No unavailable replacement text has been recreated here.
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Elie Schulman is a teacher, group facilitator, writer, and founder of Cohort Learning Labs. His work sits at the intersection of language, judgment, learning, group process, AI, and Jewish thought. Read more →