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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein discusses the Chofetz Chaim's teachings on the unique value of the Rashbi's Torah learning and its impact on Jewish thought.
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Progress. Okay, a freilich Lag B'Omer everyone. I was searching high and low for a Chofetz Chaim on Lag B'Omer. I could not find it. Not anywhere. I couldn't find it in Chofetz Chaim al haTorah, Chofetz Chaim al haNevi'im u'Kesuvim, Chofetz Chaim al Agudas HaShas. I looked at the Chofetz Chaim, maybe he has something on the Gemara of the Rashbi on Maseches Shabbos, but I did find something in the biography of the Chofetz Chaim. A very nice lamdus on the Rashbi. The Gemara says in Shabbos 119a that if you have a >> [snorts] >> that if talmidei chachamim are in the middle of learning Torah, they need to interrupt to say Shema, they don't interrupt for tefillah. Rabi Yochanan said, "This is only someone like the Rashbi v'chavero she'teirasa umnasa. But we, we're mafsik not only for Shema, but for tefillah as well." Meaning, fundamentally, you're not mafsik learning for tefillah. Says Rabi Yochanan, "Only someone like the Rashbi she'teirasa umnasa." Freigt der Chofetz Chaim, "Mima nafshach, what?" He says, "L'chora kasha. Im talmud Torah chashuv mikri'as Shema u'tefillah, if talmud Torah is more chashuv, no one should interrupt for tefillah. And if it's not more chashuv, then even the Rashbi should interrupt for tefillah." The first thing you need to to determine is the respective importance of tefillah vis-a-vis Torah. What's more chashuv? If Torah is more chashuv, then even people who are not teirasa umnasa should learn Torah and not interrupt for davening. If davening is more chashuv, even the Rashbi should interrupt. Says the Chofetz Chaim, "Torah is compared to bread, like the Navi says, 'L'chu lachmu b'lachmi.' Just [snorts] like a little bread sustains a person that if you don't eat for a day, you become weak. And if you
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- 0:00Progress. Okay, a freilich Lag B'Omer everyone. I was searching high and low for a Chofetz…
- 0:30Chofetz Chaim. A very nice lamdus on the Rashbi. The Gemara says in Shabbos 119a that…
- 1:01not mafsik learning for tefillah. Says Rabi Yochanan, "Only someone like the Rashbi she'teirasa umnasa." Freigt…
- 1:32is the respective importance of tefillah vis-a-vis Torah. What's more chashuv? If Torah is more chashuv,…
- 2:02don't eat for 3 days, you become critically weak. And if you don't eat properly for…
- 3:02for anything, that Torah was on such a high level. In fact, that Torah was greater…
- 3:32weaker. And therefore, what we will interrupt our Torah for tefillah because the the level of…
- 4:02when Torah is not learned consistently, ein ko'ach hakdusha sheba chazak ad k'dei lidchos tefillah u'kri'as…
- 4:34categorically different stratosphere. The more consistent we are in our limudim, the greater our Torah will…
- 5:04your kvi'us, you should consider like a debt. Like the Gemara says by Rav Achai bar…
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