Question

Hello and blessings to the honored Rabbi, may he live long and well,
A. How do you understand the Talmud if you do not study the Prophets and Writings? I mean, obviously there are verses that can be understood without knowing the background, but when the Talmud mentions, for example, Saul’s killing of Nob, the city of the priests, if you do not know the story (even though obviously you do know it…), you do not really understand the Talmud well. (And because of this there is also a certain criticism of the Haredi public for not to mention the Prophets and Writings.)
True, the Rabbi also usually skips the aggadic passages, so it is not such a big deal not to know the Hebrew Bible when studying Talmud, but many times the Talmud brings verses whose background is very important for understanding them.
B. There is no doubt that the Hebrew Bible is no small part of the Torah. Why should a person not aspire to know the entire Torah—or at least a central part of it—even if he does not see great value in it?
It is like how it is proper even for a kabbalist to know the plain meaning as well, even if he spends most of the day dealing with the “eternity within splendor.”
Giving up the Hebrew Bible means giving up a large part of the history of the Jewish people (even though the Rabbi argues that one cannot learn history from there), as well as future prophecies, and much more.