Hello yichusdik,
It is good to talk with you again! I so much appreciate the time you take with me, and the kind things you said about me. Thank you for your patience in explaining things to me…I LOVE history and also am always searching to understand (my parents say that I asked “why” so much as a child that they didn’t know what to do!). The areas of historical knowledge that you are speaking of are the exact kinds of things that I was thinking of…I am fascinated by Judaism’s history and where different movements came from, when some broke off completely, etc. Finding ancient texts like the Dead Sea Scrolls fills me with excitement!!! Your work as a historian must be so fulfilling — it is profound that you do the work of uncovering, preserving, and sharing the past with humankind, so we all have the opportunity to learn from our history. Thank you again for sharing even a bit of that knowledge with me 🙂