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כ"ד ניסן התשפ"ד

Thursday
כ"ד ניסן התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Shmiras Halashon / Ch. 3, 4 – 121

Our Sages said, ‘A person should preserve what he learns so he won’t be ashamed in the day of judgement. When he is told to present the Torah he learned etc.’ They also said that if a person forgot something he learned through no fault of his, an angel comes and teaches it to him to spare him the humiliation. For this reason alone, a person should be very careful not to interrupt his Torah learning with other things. Besides being forbidden, it will be very embarrassing. If offered to buy a beautiful tome of Talmud with whole pages of story books bound together in it, no one would buy it. And so it is with his learning, when the angels will present what he learned it will be filled with stories and nonsense, and he will be mortified. Therefore a person should be careful that his learning be pure without any extraneous speech.

“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)