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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000><BR><BR>And now
we can presume the usual back-and-forth about TuM has
occured,<<<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>The Gra knew and used mathematics but I really don't think you can
legitimately claim him as an early exemplar of TuM. You also are
not going to find any charedi RW Torah-only types claiming that a
ben Torah should davka NOT know any math, not even the simplest
arithmetic. </DIV>
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<DIV>I would not even attempt to claim the Gra for TIDE, though I think doing
so would be a little closer to the mark than TuM.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></FONT><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=163504216-04122007>To be mkayem R'MB's original nvuah, and to
prove as Rn'TK posted on a widely read blog that she rarely if ever agrees
with me :-), there's a world of difference between saying "that a ben Torah
should davka NOT know any math" and saying that for every lack
of "non-torah" (whatever that means) knowledge one misses 100 times
in torah knowledge(implying a useful pursuit). WRT the original issue,
sure one could claim that one need not study math (e.g. the ayil mshulash was
a waste of time to read) because one could derive it from torah sources.
Even if this statement is completely true, to derive R'Yl's formula from first
principles imvho would be a huge bittul zman when compared with studying some
basic math. These comments should be extrapolated to the other sciences
(soft and hard).</SPAN></DIV>
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