Reply To: Question to Toi on Modern Orthodoxy

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“He also did not send his students to outside colleges, he made his own.”

Really?

“And why in the world would anyone consider it a positive thing to spend years learning secular law – and if so for law, why not for MTV trivia?”

See “The Soloveitchik Heritage” where this issue is addressed with regard to Rav Aaron Soloveichik.

“If all knowledge comes from G-d (quote from Dr. Lamm) and therefore is worth pursuing then all knowledge that comes from G-d is worth pursuing – why limit your knowledge to what the colleges teach?”

What knowledge are you talking about (that colleges exclude)?

“Rav Hirsch was talking about Germany during Haskalah. He was right, then. He and his small Kehilla (about 300 members) saved German Jewry.”

I think that’s a gross oversimplification.