This work became a bridge over which ambitious young Jews could pass to the great world of secular knowledge.

This use of "Madda" as "secular knowledge" is, however, recent.

Here, then, secular knowledge is viewed as valuable for practical ends, though not in and of itself.

These peoples are unable to accept the white Christian's distinction between sacred and secular knowledge.

Schwab also frequently emphasized that Torah can never be regarded as parallel with the secular knowledge.

Hasidic and other right-wing institutions frown on secular knowledge beyond that necessary to earn a living.

The draw on the tradition of emblem books to use symbols to teach both religious and secular knowledge.

Rabbenu Asher was opposed to the study of secular knowledge, especially philosophy.

But by his teenage years he was also immersing himself in secular knowledge.

Other teachers in Lunel taught him about medicine, Arabic and the secular knowledge of his age.