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Q&A: All Seven Wisdoms Are Included in the Talmud

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All Seven Wisdoms Are Included in the Talmud

Question

Hello and blessings to the Rabbi,
I saw a claim brought in a Hasidic book that all the wisdoms are included in the Talmud (there is another claim that all the wisdom of the nations of the world originated with the sages of Israel, but here the claim is a bit different). I would be glad to know whether the Rabbi agrees with this assertion, or whether there is nothing to it.
This is what was written there:
@61″And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets, and the Torah and the commandment, which I have written to instruct them” (Exodus 24:12). And our Rabbis expounded (Berakhot 5a) that all of them were given to Moses at Sinai; see there. I heard a parable in the name of Moharaz [= our teacher Rabbi Ze’ev Kitzis(?)], who wanted to prove to someone how all the wisdoms in the world, whether the science of measurement, engineering, and the seven wisdoms, are all hinted at in the Talmud. And the questioner asked: But there are many who engage in Talmud study and do not know these wisdoms. And he answered him by way of a parable: There was once a king who had many kinds of treasures, each greater than the next, and he also had many kinds of servants and one son. In his old age he devised a plan and hid his most important treasures within the structure, in the walls of the royal canopy and the king’s chambers. He made only one alteration in the wall, one that the wise and discerning person would notice; and the more important the treasure was, the more deeply he hid it, and the subtler the alteration he made. After all this, he said privately to his son: Know that all that I have done is not for nothing; set your heart to understand. And after the king’s death, the servants snatched up the visible treasures, while this son paid attention to understand what his father had told him. After careful thought he noticed that there was a change in the wall in a certain place, and by breaking through the wall he found a treasure. After that he paid even closer attention and noticed the slightest change, indicating that there was an even more important treasure there. So it is in the moral: the external wisdoms were snatched up by the servants, who are the nations, while the important treasures—this is fear of God—were for his only son; and the treasure even more important than that, its interior is paved with love (based on Song of Songs 3:10); and the words of the wise man’s mouth are gracious.

Answer

Is this a real question or are you trolling? Not only are all the wisdoms not hidden in the Talmud, but it is clear that the Talmudic sages did not know them at all. There are obvious scientific errors in the Talmud, so you’re talking to me about hidden ones?

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