Reply To: How important are brains?

LOL, I was trying to troll sefardim in my post, and I edited it until it was fairly subtle. Then RebDoniel just blew it out of the water. FWIW, although I believe it is empirically true that the “higher IQ” that Jews supposedly have is limited to Ashkenazim, I also believe that it’s completely ridiculous to generalize about Sefardim caring about money and not emes.

In the first place, intelligence can be very useful in making money. Also, if it’s true that superstition and devotional practices indicate a lack of intelligence, then we’d be seeing Ashkenazim fall off a cliff as rebbe worship and segulah practice pervades the Charedi community.

And sure, you can find differences between the Judaism of the Rambam and that of R’ Amnon Yitzchak. But ein kol chadash tachas hashamesh – you could have found the same differences between the Rambam and many Jews in Egypt at the time, or between the Baalei Tosfos and Jews in France.