[Avodah] Secular Studies and Torah Learning

[Rich, Joel]

On Shabbos I showed these quotes to a 16-year-old yeshiva bochur.  He said, "But everything is in the Torah."  I replied, "Show me where the Pythagorean theorem is in the Torah."  Needless to say,  he had no reply.
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1. Difficult to convince someone whose whole education has been devoted to a different approach AND has been told it is the only acceptable approach.
2. I’ve said , I agree it’s all derivable from Torah but isn’t it a more efficient use of time to get it direct rather than derive it?
KT
Joel Rich
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