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י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Thursday
י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Ahavas Chesed / Part 1 – 131

Although a person can perform the mitzva of learning Torah in solitude, one should strive to learn in a public setting, for by doing so he causes more glory to Hashem when many people gather together to serve Him, as it states, ‘The larger the multitude the more it exalts the king’. Our Sages said that when a person learns on his own, Hashem rewards him for it, whereas when he learns in a group, he is also written in a spiritual book of merits, and if there are ten learners Hashem comes to wait for them there. Our Sages also said that Torah is especially acquired in groups, as one of the forty-eight ways of acquiring Torah is teamwork.

“And the utterly undoubtable truth is that if the entire world, from one end to the other, would be absent of our engagement and delving into the Torah, even for one moment, literally, then all the worlds - both upper and lower - would be destroyed instantly, and would turn into utter chaos, chas v’shalom…” (Nefesh Hachaim)