Transmission of tradition
Page 3. Transmission of tradition. Pure chaos about opens by placing the rabbinic teachings within their historical context.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Koren Pirkei Avot
In the book
He had watched good people perish in their goodness and bad ones prosper for years; he watched a man labor his whole life only to hand the results to a successor he never chose, and caught the smaller daily ironies too — that the laborer sleeps sweetly whether he eats little or much, while the very abundance of the rich man will not let him rest. Even the wisdom we inherit was carried down out of chaos, each generation's teaching first set down in the turbulence of its own age. That is the sky as it honestly is — and even the laws of the physical universe lean the same way. — Takeoff Into Chaos