[Avodah] talmud Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:13:02PM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: Micha brings up a different point that is not completely clear.
: What defines Talmud Torah
: examples
: learning dikduk?
: learning Jewish history especially about talmud scholars
...
: using probability theory to explain Rov and a sugya in kinnim
...

I do not think it's unclear. I think it's well defined -- but as fuzzy
set. Similar to what RDI wrote. What I would add is that getting on
the edge where the answer to "is it talmud Torah" becomes a "somewhat",
the answer would seem to depend on lishmah. E.g. look at RET's example
"using probability theory to explain Rov and a sugya in kinnim" vs
learning the same formula in order to exaplin a game in Let's Make a Deal.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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