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י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Thursday
י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Toras Habayis / Ch. 11 – 104

One more incentive can be learned from the verse, ‘If you seek it like silver and search it like a treasure’, that also after learning one should be overjoyed with his fortune just like he would be if he made a windfall, especially after finishing a maseches. The Zohar says that someone who finishes a maseches inherits a whole world. Obviously the converse is true as well, and if a few days passed that a person did not learn in, he should feel like he lost a unique opportunity.

One could expound more on this verse, but the rule of thumb is, that whenever a person has a decision to make about learning Torah, he should remember this verse and consider what a business person would do if he had a similar dilemma, and consider Torah no less valuable than money.

“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)