0231 - Learning Yoreh Dei'a and Gemara

00:01 There was a bocher in 770 who was in my time, a little older than me, but he was a friend of mine, and, uh, he wondered if he should learn Yoreh Dei'ah or not. So he told me he's gonna ask the Rebbe whether he should learn Yoreh Dei'ah. He went into Yechidus, and he asked the Rebbe if he should learn Yoreh Dei'ah. And the Rebbe told him he should, and the Rebbe even gave him, like, a svor of why. He says, a bocher that's in yeshiva for so many years, it's good that he goes out. He should have some kind of-- something to show for it. Should be some kind-- He didn't use the word degree. It's, it's a Goyishe word. It's a Goyishe inyan. But something to show f-- that you know you accomplished, so it's kedai for him to learn Yoreh Dei'ah. Then he asked the Rebbe, should he also learn part of the Gemara? And the Rebbe told him, and as-- and even the-- when he told it to me, which about five minutes after he went out of Yechidus, there was one word he didn't remember exactly. Or the Rebbe said, "Zi is a sheyte, der vos learnt a gantse tog Yoreh Dei'ah un learnt nisht Gemara." Or the Rebbe said, "Zi is a shtus, lerne a gantse tog Yoreh Dei'ah un nisht lerne kein Gemara." The tochen is the same, but he just didn't remember that time how the Rebbe said it. But this was the tochen, that for sure,

01:08 y- part of the time you have to learn Gemara. But he did advise him to learn Yoreh Dei'ah.