“I can’t say I was lied to for decades. I was lying to myself for decades.”

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Oct 12, 2026 · 13m

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I was not in the least bit surprised by the attention that our first conversation with Dr. Yaacov Lozowick generated when we posted it last week. In these conversations, Lozowick models something rare—a willingness to reassess his own views on the basis of new documents he’s read and new history he’s encountered.

There is a phrase that appears several times in the Talmud (in various formulations)—חָזְרוּ בֵּית שַׁמַּאי לְהוֹרוֹת כְּדִבְרֵי בֵּית הִלֵּל—noting that the School of Shammai retracted their…