SECULAR STUDIES forbidden permitted or a mitzva?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Menachem Nissel’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

with a story that I heard last week while my wife was sitting shiva in Baltimore in the holy city of Baltimore so a Rob came up to me unfortunately I do not remember who he was and he told me a story that was a stickle scoop I do not think the story is in the art scroll rakov but it was about rakov kineski the grandfather of my um of my Kusa David BMA please D for DAV kineski my kuso has BMA please D for DAV kineski my kuso has brain tumor uh his grandfather was ROV and the story goes as follows uh one of his first chot I think it was in the city of um of uh um I think it was I wrote it down cattin I think that's where it was when he got the shell in civia he found out it was a town without a doctor and he decided that K say person should not live in a town without a doctor he decided to study medicine and The Story Goes that he went to the and The Story Goes that he went to the library in Warsaw and locked himself up there for three days until he F felt sufficiently proficient that he could perform medicine in three days this is what I was told and maybe there's a gzma over there but the bottom line is is that while he had his tenure in catin he actually practiced medicine and um I'm bringing this open because I want to talk about secular studies and here we have a story of a god of CLA Israel in

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