Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition, Norman Lamm's 1990 study from Jason Aronson, examines the relationship between religious and secular knowledge by a rabbi and former president of Yeshiva University who was himself a major exponent of the Modern Orthodox synthesis the book examines. Its strength is that direct standing within the tradition it describes. Its limit is that Lamm writes as an advocate for that synthesis, not as a disinterested outside scholar, so the book is best read as a primary statement of the Modern Orthodox position rather than a neutral survey of competing Jewish positions on the question.
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Torah Umadda, by Norman Lamm, published by Jason Aronson in 1990, is a rabbi and yeshiva president's own programmatic argument for his institution's guiding philosophy, the middle tier reflecting an authoritative insider statement rather than independent academic study of the question. NotesScholarly study of the relationship between religious learning and secular knowledge in the Jewish tradition, Jason Aronson, 1990.
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AuthorNorman Lamm
PublisherJason Aronson
Publication Year1990
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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