Might the reason be largely that the life of the mind cannot flourish among persons who spend the best hours of their lives *toiling*?
The kind of intensive and subtly nuanced studies which I gather go on in the Yeshivas(sp?) cannot come "after" wearing yourself out in agricultural labor (not to mention the calluses such labor forms on both the hand and the soul...). Or do we have some persons here who say not only that it is possible, but that hard labor in the hot sun all day nurtures in-depth esoteric hermeneutical studies and stimulates them to widely *flourish*?
I reacently read that a study found that Yeshiva students did much better at solving difficult geometry problems than the students in normal schools, even though they did not have as much nominal math education, etc. The reason seemed to be that they are trained to approach a problem from many angles in depth (hermeneutics, again...), etc.
As Charlie [the Starkist...] Tuna asked:
Which do you want: A tuna with good taste, or a
tuna that tastes good?\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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