[Avodah] volozhin

[Eli Turkel]

The reason why I bring this up - and it might be obvious to everyone here
but me - is that it seems from this that the Volozhin school of thought, as
explicated by the Netziv, which was predisposed against Chassidus (which
could be seen as a parallel to the Essenes) and against secular study
(analogous to the Philosophers)>>

I was always told that in fact Volozhin insisted that the Chassidic boys
keep their chassidic ways and that relative to other places it was not
against secular studies.

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Eli Turkel