The Philosophers and the Jews: Black Eggs and White Cheese

as always, we are looking forward very very much.

I understand the symbolism of the eggs and the goats, but for simplicity's sake, couldn't R' Yehoshua have responded by arguing that the eggs themselves are both white?

As always, I like your essay / class. Bright days always come; it does not matter how long darkness continues it will be replaced with lightness. The same is true for Jewish history book.

Perhaps because eggs are created by nature; cheese has to be created by the human being. The light that comes from the transformation of drakness is a human creation; it is the unique contribution of mankind.
Also, the whiteness of cheese is far sharper than that of eggs.
Also, after he explained it through the goats, that blackness too produces light, then indeed it can be applied to aggs as well. but first he had to introduce the very concept through the cheese of the goats. i think this is really the answer.

I thought 21 days represented the days of holiness in the year?
shabbos = 1
rosh chodesh = 1
rosh hashona = 2
yom kippur = 1
succos = 7
shmini atzeres = 1
pessach = 7
shavuos = 1

Baruch HaShem,

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rabbi yehoshua did not want to respond with the example of eggs because the eggs are just white from a black chicken, it can be a white egg because it is showing that there is no difference between black chickens and white chickens like the elders of athens claim or it can be as r' yehoshua claims, but when you use the example of the black goat which the 2nd goat clearly represents the "dark chambers of the human spirit" and everything evil, and that is why it is cast off the mountain, still it produces white cheese and the red string turns to white and it transforms the darkness into light. in other words the black chicken producing white eggs doesnt necessarily represent transformation of darkness to light it can be representing what the elders are claiming, as oppose to the black goat which produces white cheese is clearly showing the jewish view on darkness that the black goat on yom kippur, the evil, the trangressions, the dark days can all and will all be transformed to light, to a white string, and clear the jews from all iniquity (which is the purpose of the goats on yom kippur). But the question is still there that r' yehoshu could of used an example of the goats milk why go to chesse? so for this question i think isaac's first answer is is really interesting, and another possible answer is that it wouldn't be as funny watching rabbi jacobson hold a gallon of milk as it was watching him flap around the cheese!