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Ilana Sober wrote:<BR>
<BR>>I agree with the basic premise that many Jews who did not go into learning<BR>>have made great contributions in other fields - whether to humanity in<BR>>general or on a smaller scale to their own patients, clients, students, etc.<BR><BR>And if all the Jews went into learning, who would be left to support them?<BR>
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Far from discouraging secular pursuits, Torah tells us the proper way <BR>
to conduct ourselves while doing so. Some of chazal spent their entire lives in the <BR>
bet midrash, and some did not. Presumably, the Torah guided them <BR>
wherever they were, and so should it be for us.<BR>
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