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Quite a few years ago, in an article in National Geographic, a honcho in (IIRC) the Lubavitcher community commented off-handedly that Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein could have been three of the greatest Talmudic scholars ever.

Not so sure his bent would have taken Einstein down that path, but the other two, I could see. So the proposition before us is twofold:

• What would it have taken to cause Marx and Freud to pursue Talmudic studies rather than economics/political theory and medicine, respectively?
• What would have been the implications thereof?
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