[Avodah] Torah Study vs. other contributions to society

[Elliott Shevin]

Ilana Sober wrote:
 >I agree with the basic premise that many Jews who did not go into learning>have made great contributions in other fields - whether to humanity in>general or on a smaller scale to their own patients, clients, students, etc.And if all the Jews went into learning, who would be left to support them?
 
[ Semi- :-) ]
 
Far from discouraging secular pursuits, Torah tells us the proper way 
to conduct ourselves while doing so. Some of chazal spent their entire lives in the 
bet midrash, and some did not. Presumably, the Torah guided them 
wherever they were, and so should it be for us.
 Elly"Striving to bring Torah Judaism into the 58th century"
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