[Avodah] Stopped learning Nach? (was Re: What does "Redemption/Geulah" mean?)

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:27:12PM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
> " I believe it was Rav Hutner ZT"L who once complained about how the  
> Christians stole Tanach from the Jews- after all they can quote Isaiah  
> and Zedekiah better than most Jews; as the Jews stopped learning these  
> works."
> What?  When did this happen?

Sometime before Rabbeinu Tam. See Tosafos Sanhedrin 24a d"h "belulah
bemiqra ubemishnah". Ashkenazim have been rationalizing our
diproportionate focus on Bavli for about a millennium now.

:-)||ii!
-Micha