Opportunity: This is occasion to discuss issues of scholarly integrity and to grapple with the concept of Torat Emet. Students will likely be exposed to textual-critical scholarship at some point in the course of their higher education. In keeping with the Hildesheimer model, we believe that it is possible to reconcile masoret truth with scientific truth and that students’ struggles to arrive at such reconciliation should be dealt with in the context of a Torah institution, where they can be assisted and guided along the way.
