A priest, a rabbi, and a philosopher walk into a palace . . .
It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but its actually the scenario for Reb Yehuda Halevys monumental classic The Kuzari. In it, the king of the Khazars, who really did convert to Judaism, invites four people a philosopher, a Christian, a Moslem, and a Jew to debate the relative merits of their worldviews. From their dialogue comes a picture of the philosophical basis of Judaism.
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