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י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Thursday
י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Shmiras Halashon / Part 3, Ch. 4 -78

Our Sages said, just as the reward for learning Torah is greater than all the mitzvas, so forsaking Torah is punished more harshly than the worst sin. Every day a herald comes out of Mount Horev and declares, ‘Woe to people who forsake the Torah’. Not learning Torah is the greatest belittling of its importance, for how can a mere mortal possibly abstain from cleaving to that which is so accessible, yet ultimately divine.

A person should imagine he was given a one-time opportunity to do something only very rich people can afford, surely he would do so gladly even without any return. How much more so should a person be overjoyed to learn the holy Torah that angels frolic with, and all the tzaddikim in Heaven delve deeply into, and now he is given the golden opportunity to share in their fortune.

“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)