Max Kadushin, The Rabbinic Mind, 2nd edition, with an appendix by Simon Greenberg, New York: Blaisdell, 1965, 414 pp.; $8.50. In Conservative Judaism, Volume XX, Number 1, Fall 1965 Rabbi Naftali Ropshitzer is said to have declared that, before he was born, an angel showed him two contradictory lists of rules for the conduct of…