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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Friday
י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Shem Olam/ Part 2, Ch. 5 – 141

A person learning Torah can be compared to a scribe writing a Torah scroll. Just as a scribe needs to sanctify the scroll he is writing by stating its purpose, so a person needs to be aware that he is learning the Torah that Hashem created the world with, and should learn to fulfill Hashem’s wish that we know His Torah. By doing this, the holiness of the Torah will illuminate the words he engraves on his heart. Like the scribe writing the Torah scroll, it is sufficient to do this once when commencing learning. Needless to say, the more he learns the holier his ‘inner scroll’ becomes, just as a whole Torah scroll is holier than one written passage.

“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)