<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Simon Montagu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.montagu@gmail.com">simon.montagu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com" target="_blank">T613K@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">[I]t is not, strictly speaking, assur to be
stupid.<font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><div> </div><br></font></div></blockquote><div><br>Do you have a source for this? I am asking semi-seriously, because I remember seeing some years ago someone on here quoting a teshuva that explicitly said it *is* assur to be stupid. IIRC the context was astrology or "channeling" or something similar, but I can't find it in my gmail archive<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Found it: the penultimate paragraph of <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol15/v15n030.shtml#11">http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol15/v15n030.shtml#11</a> quoting from Nefesh HaRav.<br></div>