"A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one."

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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

— Cory Doctorow