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Four Types Of Disciples

What type of disciple are we?

Our own attitude to study and application can be discerned from a Jewish parable.

There are 4 types of disciples that sit in the presence of teachers:

  • the sponge, who soaks up everything (without discernment),
  • the funnel, who takes everything in and then lets it all out again (no retention or application),
  • the strainer, who lets out the wine and keeps the sediment (only remembers the irrelevant) and
  • the sifter, who extracts the coarse flour (erroneous teaching) and keeps the fine flour (true teaching).


Source:
Mishnah, Aboth, 5.15