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<DIV><BR>"When I was in the illustrious city of Vilna in the presence of the
<BR>Rav, the light, the great Gaon, my master and teacher, the light of
<BR>the eyes of the exile, the renowned pious one (may Hashem protect and
<BR>save him) Rav Eliyahu, in the month of Teves 5538 [January 1778], I
<BR>heard from his holy mouth that according to what a person is lacking
<BR>in knowledge of the "other wisdoms," correspondingly he will be
<BR>lacking one hundred portions in the wisdom of the Torah, because the
<BR>Torah and the 'other wisdoms' are inextricably linked together
..."<BR><BR>(From the Introduction to the Hebrew translation of Euclid's book
on <BR>geometry, Sefer Uklidos [The Hague, 1780] by R. Barukh Schick of
Shklov)<BR><BR><SPAN class=313064613-20082010><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=313064613-20082010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>So I've
often wondered if the GRA thought this way (and I agree-not that that means
anything), and he thought the Rambam was philosophically way off base
(Aristotle and all that)</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>, why
wouldn't he not have accepted the Rambam's halacha as being deficient due to
this inextricable link.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=313064613-20082010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>KT<BR>Joel
Rich</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><br><br><table bgcolor=white style="color:black"><tr><td><br>THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE <br>
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