{"id":41764,"date":"2012-03-15T18:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41764"},"modified":"2012-03-15T18:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:45:01","slug":"torah-geniuses-uncrushed-by-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41764","title":{"rendered":"Torah Geniuses Uncrushed By Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a> on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/onthemainline.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/on-rabbi-moses-kunitzs-interesting.html\">Rabbi Moses Kunitz<\/a>, professor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says about the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meir_Simcha_of_Dvinsk\">Ohr Somayach<\/a>: &#8220;All of his education came from his father. 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