Editing Torah Umadda (section)

==History==
''Torah Umadda'' is closely associated with [[Yeshiva University]]. The actual philosophy underlying the combination of Torah and secular wisdom at Yeshiva University was variously articulated, first by [[Bernard Revel]], by his successors [[Samuel Belkin]] and [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik|Joseph Soloveitchik]], and most recently, and formally, by [[Norman Lamm]]. Although its roots go back to 1886, it was only in 1946 that the University adopted "Torah Umadda" as its slogan. (In 2005, Yeshiva University president [[Richard Joel]] initiated a campaign to append the phrase "Bringing wisdom to life", as a "tag-line" to the university's motto.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2005/09/yus-new-tag-line.html|title=YU's New Tag Line|date=September 30, 2005}}</ref> Today, Yeshiva University publishes the ''Torah Umadda Journal'' which "explores the complex relationships between Torah, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences", as well as studies on related topics in the ''Library of Jewish Law and Ethics'' (with Ktav Publishing House).

The phrase itself is thought to originate with [[Jonathan Eybeschutz]], who mentions "Torah u-Madda" in his [[Jonathan Eybeschutz#Works|''Yaarot Devash'']] in at least sixteen places.<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.edah.org/backend/JournalArticle/4_1_brill.pdf|title=Edah.org}}</ref> This use of "Madda" as "secular knowledge" is, however, recent. In [[Rabbinic literature]], "secular knowledge" is usually<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.azure.org.il/download/magazine/186az24_Hansel.pdf|title=Azure.org}}</ref> referred to as ''chokhmah'' {{Script/Hebrew|חכמה}}. The first book in [[Maimonides]]' compendium of [[Halakha]], the [[Mishneh Torah]], is entitled "Madda" {{Script/Hebrew|מדע}}  - there, though, the term refers to knowledge of the fundamentals of Judaism. "In the first book I will include all the [[613 mitzvot|commandments]] that are [[Jewish principles of faith|principles]] of the law of Moses and that a man should know before all else, such as the [[divine simplicity|Unity of God]] and the prohibitions related to idolatry. And I have called this book ''Sefer ha Madda'' the Book of Knowledge."

Torah and Madda is also compared to the doctrine of the Vilna Gaon  as stated in Sefer Kol Hator, that the torah is incomplete without knowledge of the 7 wisdoms.<ref>Kol Hator sha'ar Be'er shevah part 2</ref>