title: Who Gets a Voice at the Table?: Eating and Blessing with Rav Naḥman
abstract: who dine together, not to mention relationships of respect and love. In fact, a rabbi's study partner is referred to as his aver (his friend).3 That said, in thinking about male rabbi-rabbi relationships it is important to recognize that the rabbis never shy away from exposing the downside of collegiality, including male competition, its power dynamics, the tensions between masters and their disciples, the struggles for authority, the desire to best the other at their own process of intellection