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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Chomas Hadas / Ch. 5 – 143

The Torah commands each Jewish person to teach his son Torah. There are those who claim that their financial situation doesn’t allow them to pay their son’s tuition. If they would stop and think about it, they would realize that this is just a ruse of the evil inclination. When it comes to temporal physical necessities parents extend themselves beyond their ability, even endangering themselves for their child’s welfare. However, when it comes to learning Torah that will give them eternal life for both of them, all of a sudden the financial burden is too heavy, as it says in the verse, ‘you, the Jewish people, have made my commandments into a burden’.

“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)