[Avodah] How game theory solved a religious mystery

[Rich, Joel]

"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)

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So I've often wondered if the GRA thought this way (and I agree-not that that means anything), and he thought the Rambam was philosophically way off base (Aristotle and all that) , why wouldn't he not have accepted the Rambam's halacha as being deficient due to this inextricable link.
KT
Joel Rich
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