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...modernity has yet to intrude. There Cass meets Azarya, a child prodigy who at the age of six has derived complex mathematical proofs without any formal education. But Azarya is also the son of the town’s Grand Rebbe, expected to succeed his father as the Hasidim??€™s spiritual guide. Cass bears witness to Azarya’s agonizing choice between denying the secular world that so engages him or leaving his communal responsibilities and attending MIT—a struggle which informs Cass’s own thinking on religion’s roots...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldstein Opens Up Religious Discussion in ‘36 Arguments’ | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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