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י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Thursday
י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Zechor LeMiriam / Ch. 11 – 125

Rabbi Tarfon said in Pirkei Avos, ‘The time is short, and the work load is heavy, and the workers are lazy’, meaning that each generation achieves less Torah than the previous one, and what one could learn in one hour in one generation takes days to learn in a different generation, so ‘the time is short’. However one should not think for a minute that the Torah also ‘shrank’ accordingly, for the Torah will never change, and one iota of it will not be altered, so ‘the work load is heavy’. Since a person’s days are numbered and the Torah is immense, he should do whatever he can to fill his days with Torah, and not spend them on vanities.

“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)