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Yeridat ha-dorot
Yeridat ha-dorot (Hebrew: ירידת הדורות), meaning literally "the decline of the generations," is a concept in classical Rabbinic Judaism and contemporary Orthodox Judaism expressing a belief of the intellectual inferiority of contemporary Torah scholarship in comparison to that of the past. One of the first expressions of the idea appears in the Talmudic adage found in Shabbos 112b (Soncino):
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