Oral Culture versus Written Culture

Rabbi Triebitz discusses the radical change of paradigm between an Oral Culture and a Written Culture.

He also reviews and clarifies everything that he has said until now regarding the redaction of the Talmud, coming to a (possibly) disturbing conclusion.

There are several sources for this shiur:
Sanhedrin 33a and the Rosh there
Gittin 60a
Bava Metzia 63a
Rav Elchanon Wasserman and Chazon Ish in Kovetz Inyanim p. 194ff
Sefer Hakaballa of the Meiri
Temura 13b

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