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August 17, 2026

The Talmud’s Version of Participatory Education

Keep silent and hear.

The rising power of large language models and the introduction of the digital classroom have compounded other problems with the American educational system—an issue addressed by Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical on artificial intelligence. Responding to the pope’s call for “silence, in-depth study, reading, and judicious analysis,” Adam Eilath draws on rabbinic wisdom:

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