[Avodah] Self Esteem

[Prof. Levine]

>At 05:30 PM 11/30/2010, R. Akiva Blum wrote:
>>
>>  What I find strange about R. Dessler is that his father made sure that he
>>had a secular education, since his father had studied in Kelm where secular
>>studies were part of the yeshiva curriculum.
>>
>>
>>So? What do Rav Desslers observations have to do with the decisions of his
>>father?
>>
>>Akiva

I get the distinct impression from what R. Dessler wrote that he is 
against secular studies and has adopted the  "Torah only" approach. I 
would have thought that he would not have adopted this, given his 
"family tradition" (mesorah).   Clearly I am wrong.  YL
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