HaPeles, the newspaper of the haredi non-hasidic breakaway faction led by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, has given us the best – and funniest – proof yet that haredim desperately need secular education.

As it now stands, most haredi yeshivas at the grade, middle and high school levels have no secular studies or teach one or two secular subjects late in the day using untrained and unqualified teachers. Haredi rabbis like Auerbach are vehemently opposed to haredi yeshivas teaching any secular studies – even math. The rabbis contend that everything a student needs to know is contained in the Torah. What follows is proof that they are wrong, provided by their own hands.

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[Via: Baolamam Shel Haredim.]