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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Friday
י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Chomas Hadas / Ch. 12 – 59

Learning Torah is what keeps the world functioning, and it says in various holy sefarim, that if for one moment no one in the world would be learning, the world would immediately cease to exist, as it says in the holy Zohar. Yet there are people who thoughtlessly belittle poor Torah learners, as if they were insignificant

This is like a nobleman who travelled in a fancy train, and when he entered the locomotive car, he saw that all the workers and all the walls were black with soot. He immediately decided that it was not proper for such a fancy train to have such a dirty locomotive, and ordered all the dirty workers to leave the train. As a result, the train grinded to an unscheduled stop as soon as the coal in the engine finished burning, to the nobleman’s dismay. So it is in this world, the whole world is motivated by the Torah learners whose faces are black from learning diligently under trying conditions. How a person should honor and revere these people who are poor in possessions and rich in spirit, and should appreciate them for keeping the world going.

“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)