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The Methodology of Learning - R' Mendel Kessin

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A lecture on the methodology of Torah learning by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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yeah this is a very interesting tomorrow which I think is pretty worthwhile you know um here's what it says I read it in English the scroll cuz you know whatever okay it says so this would be can be interpreted for by wise counsel you shall wage a war so they learn is wise counsel you will so they learn is wise counsel you will make war that's how you wage war Okay so okay here's what he says with whom do you find the Battle of teror okay that's his question who do you find the Battle of Torah means who is the that engages in the Battle of T is the that engages in the Battle of T to understand back and forth until you figure out what's going on okay that's that's what that okay so he answers mishna okay with one who has in his hand bundles of mishna so therefore he learns that's how he learns you know with bundles that's he's learning with bundles you should make learning with bundles you should make war so who's the one who's able to make war in ter the war of the terror which means to really understand the struggle to understand Terror with whoever has bundles of mishna so RF also applied to himself this POS this much produce comes by strength of the ax andf was famous that he he was a scen ax andf was famous that he he was a scen whatever and so on so Rashi says on that which is really very interesting says it's instructions it's the the instructions okay and to really understand means Clarity and it's a fundamental

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  1. 0:22yeah this is a very interesting tomorrow which I think is pretty worthwhile you know um
  2. 5:36database that's what everybody needs it's not only the people ofor a person needs to understand
  3. 10:48sound it sound good because you need it's good to have some type of a a
  4. 16:37miml right and miml oh actually this there is one thing at the end of M
  5. 21:52text it's called the shma extension was the BR expansions so to speak right is this
  6. 27:30game so is reading the to obviously next to shma next to the P of shma
  7. 32:40the words or the letters right understand the meaning say the to articulate or to enunciate
  8. 37:52are weing about priorities maybe two obligations what's what what has more weight is that what's
  9. 43:37answer is somebody who demands or requires COV or Europe not requires somebody who you know
  10. 48:51two so one is a verbal activity Interruption another is the sensation of Kaa as an

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