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I Am Not Old

Chapter 3 explores the relations between age and socio-intellectual status within the rabbinic study house. It shows that alongside an attempt made in some rabbinic texts to present a harmonious picture of members of the study house as an ageless community, there are also various indications of intergenerational animosity, disharmony, and even cruelty. The first part of the chapter examines the ethos that Torah learning protects one from the predicaments of old age, and it also argues that the ethos of an ageless society of learners creates a social setting in which the young cannot be truly young. The second part of the chapter turns to sources that present ruptures and tensions in the idealized vision of intergenerational harmony in the study house and in the world of Torah learning, looking closely at one story of brutal excommunication (BT Mo‘ed Qatan 17a).