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Re: Joshua Slocum's navigational methods
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Apr 18, 17:36 -0400
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Apr 18, 17:36 -0400
Frank R asked > I wonder when swimming first became a 'mandatory' part of education. Codified some fifteen hundred years ago, the 'mandate' may have been in effect for much longer. From the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud (Kiddushin 29a): "A father is obligated to circumcise his son, to redeem him, to teach him Torah, to find him a wife and to teach him a trade. Some say that he must also teach him to swim." Herbert Prinz
