[Avodah] Secular knowledge

[Prof. Levine]

At 06:35 AM 2/1/2011, R. Saul Z. Newman wrote:

>http://revach.net/avodah/olam-hatorah/Parshas-Truma-Maharsham-A-Talmid-Chochom-Must-Have-Worldly-Wisdom/4950
>so if anyone says the gdolim lack secular knowledge, he is really
>impugning their tora learning.....

There it says

The Maharsham (Tcheiles Mordechai) explains that these seven branches 
represent the seven secular wisdoms of the world. The Menora 
represents Torah and a talmid chochom must know all these wisdoms. If 
each branch was developed separately and then added to the menora, 
one would think that a talmid chochom must study each one of these 
subjects independently in order to complete his wisdom.

Hashem commanded Moshe to make the seven branches by shaping it out 
of one piece, the Torah. One must study Torah, and from plumbing the 
depths of the Torah he can know all the wisdom of the world, if he is 
willing to work hard and bang and shape himself.


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Question:  If this indeed the case, namely, that "from plumbing the 
depths of the Torah he can know all the wisdom of the world,"  then 
why is there no mention in the GRA's sefer Aiyel Meshulash of Torah 
sources for the mathematics he presents?  YL

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