I, less than a garlic peel, and am ho’oretz that I am, make a bracha every morning “baruch hamaychin mitzadei gaver. The secular knowledge I have, the places and things I have experienced all enhance and aid my learning. It just happened to come from a secular education (and a secular L.I. upbringing, but it is a base load of yedios regardless. As I got mostly D,s in college maths, I am still fearful to start a serious try at hilchos kiddush hachodesh. Somewhere in my not quite ordered library is a statement of Rav Kook ztkl” that in essence says: one who lacks one measure of science, will be lacking 10 measures of Torah.
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