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Yserb, you’re putting your own values in Hashem’s mouth. Where do chazal say that one must or even should know secular studies? Achronim write that there’s an inyan, and that your Torah knowledge is limited if you don’t know certain chochmos.
So having a potential limit on their torah knowledge is the same as cultivating a community that not only has almost no Torah knowledge at all, but accepts feminism, evolution, pritzus, LGBT, and the view of halachos such as intergender mingling, touching, hair covering, and many more as a “personal choice”?
MO don’t value secular studies because they help them learn Torah…they value them because they believe in them as an ends to themselves, as normann lamm so eloquently blasphemed.
And no, chasidim do not live in 3rd world conditions. The majority go into and are wildly successful in business. So much so that ehen they succeed, the media pans “rich jews” and when they dail, the times insults “poor, uneducated jews” – they can’t win.
And yes, chasidim are bilingual. They know lashon kodesh, and yiddish. They spend 12 hours a day immersed in these language academically throughout their education.