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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Friday
י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Shmiras Halashon / Part 3, Ch. 5 – 151

Someone who supports Torah will not be lacking the funds he gave, and will benefit tremendously in the world to come, as the Midrash says on the verse, ‘For a mitzva is [like] a candle and Torah is light’, that sometimes a person wants to do a mitzva and the evil inclination says to him, ‘Why should you spend money on doing a mitzva for others, better to give it to your children’. The good inclination responds that it is better to give for a mitzva, for a mitzva is like a candle that does not lack light when other candles are lit from it.

And by supporting Torah a person merits having good and holy children, as it says in the holy Zohar, ‘[The Torah ] is a tree of life to those who cleave to it, and its supporters are gratified, who are the Torah’s ‘supporters’ – those who give Torah learners merchandise to sell and live off.

“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)