Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Pinchas called "The Crown All Can Wear". You can read it in full here: bit.ly/32QMbty and download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2SEdx0Y. #ShabbatShalom 
The Sages were constantly on their guard against exclusivist attitudes to #Torah. #Equality is never preserved without vigilance – and indeed there were contrary tendencies.
One cannot predict who will achieve greatness. Therefore, said the Sages, Torah must be taught to all. No nation achieves perfection. An aptitude for learning is not equally distributed within any group.
There is always a tendency for the most intelligent and scholarly to see themselves as more gifted than others and for the rich to attempt to purchase a better #education for their children than the poor.
Yet to an impressive – even remarkable – degree, #Jews were vigilant in ensuring that no one was excluded from education and that schools and teachers were paid for by public funds.
By many centuries, indeed millennia, #Jews were the first to democratise #education. The crown of #Torah was indeed open to all.
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