<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>RLevineStevens quoting R Hirsch, <br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"></font>V'dibarta Bom<br><br>The study of the Torah shall be our main intellectual pursuit. We are not<br>to study the Torah incidentally. We are not to study Torah from the standpoint<br>of another science or for the sake of that science. So, too, we are to<br>be careful not to introduce into the sphere of the Torah foreign ideas that<br>were developed on the basis of other premises. Rather, we should always<br>be mindful of the superiority of the Torah, which differs from all other<br>scientific knowledge through its Divine origin. We should not imagine<br>that it is based on mere human knowledge
and accordingly is on the same<br>level as other human sciences.<br>..........<br>my question is, is the methodology of greek knowledge in their use of<br>logic (modus ponens, modus tolens, etc), better than ours (eg, kal v'chomer??)<br>is it this use, perhaps in the future, [moshiach times] that the chachamim<br>spoke of regarding the beauty of greece (shem v'yafet) in noach blessings.....<br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>