[Avodah] How game theory solved a religious mystery

[Prof. Levine]

At the suggestion of an Areivim Moderator, I am reposting this to Avodah. YL

At 11:22 PM 8/19/2010, sb30 at columbia.edu wrote:
 >It appears that with your secular background, you don't understand
 >game theory -- but do you understand the gemara (in kesuvos) ? I'll 
bet not...

There are many things that I do not understand.

I did not mean to imply that a decent secular background allows one
to understand all things. Nonetheless, we do have

"When I was in the illustrious city of Vilna in the presence of the
Rav, the light, the great Gaon, my master and teacher, the light of
the eyes of the exile, the renowned pious one (may Hashem protect and
save him) Rav Eliyahu, in the month of Teves 5538 [January 1778], I
heard from his holy mouth that according to what a person is lacking
in knowledge of the "other wisdoms," correspondingly he will be
lacking one hundred portions in the wisdom of the Torah, because the
Torah and the 'other wisdoms' are inextricably linked together ..."

(From the Introduction to the Hebrew translation of Euclid's book on
geometry, Sefer Uklidos [The Hague, 1780] by R. Barukh Schick of Shklov)

Please also see
<http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/relevance_secular_studies_jewish_education.pdf>The 

Relevance of Secular Studies to Jewish Education (Collected Writings VII)


Yitzchok Levine
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