He who receives, the disciple, is always —
must always be — the scene of a creation.
To receive is to create, to innovate!
The petrification of acquired knowledge —
the freezing of spiritual things —
allowing itself to be placed like an inert content in the mind
and to be handed on, frozen, from one generation to another,
is not real transmission….
Handing on is resumption, life, invention and renewal,
a mode without which revealed thinking,
that is to say, thinking which is authentically thought,
is not possible.
Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud
