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**alanamosteller** · 06-27-2010, 09:57 PM

(1) Jewish kids in a traditional family learn to read pretty early, because theirs need to understand the Torah. They usually know at least a bit of a Semitic language, and they are functionally billinguals. Besides, they learn history from the Bible.
Even more, Jewish tradition has the Kabalah as an integral part of the culture. And Kabalah is a mystic numerology. So, do you wonder from where the love to numbers come from?
When Jews finally comfront the topics tought in the Western curricula they are already familiarized with history, linguistic, mathematics, traditions, psycology, etc. So no wonder they do well.

You're correct about the linguistic and cultural/historical face of it but totally wrong about the Kabbalah ordeal (yeladim don't get the right to get into Kabbalah, only Tzadikim).

Here's some proof: I absolutely suck at maths (learned how to cope with it as I grew up).

06-27-2010, 09:57 PM	#21
alanamosteller Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	(1) Jewish kids in a traditional family learn to read pretty early, because theirs need to understand the Torah. They usually know at least a bit of a Semitic language, and they are functionally billinguals. Besides, they learn history from the Bible. Even more, Jewish tradition has the Kabalah as an integral part of the culture. And Kabalah is a mystic numerology. So, do you wonder from where the love to numbers come from? When Jews finally comfront the topics tought in the Western curricula they are already familiarized with history, linguistic, mathematics, traditions, psycology, etc. So no wonder they do well. You're correct about the linguistic and cultural/historical face of it but totally wrong about the Kabbalah ordeal (yeladim don't get the right to get into Kabbalah, only Tzadikim). Here's some proof: I absolutely suck at maths (learned how to cope with it as I grew up).
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