Is SCIENCE dangerous? | Ten Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #39

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Can learning science hurt your soul? === Sponsored by Marilyn & Michael Fedak. === In this week’s Tanya class, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg examines a provocative statement from the Alter Rebbe: even studying non-heretical secular wisdom can be considered bitul Torah if a person could be learning Torah instead. But if science and philosophy reveal the brilliance of Hashem’s creation, why would studying them ever be spiritually problematic? This class explores the tension between Torah wisdom and secular knowledge — and why the Alter Rebbe frames the issue in such stark terms