How to Think Like the Gemara | An Introduction to Talmud Learning

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Peretz Segal’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

you know, we're learning Torah and often people think, well, okay, you're learning Torah, so what's the what's what's the connection between the study of Torah and uh and ding and fillers and uh in in the first Torah, he says he starts off with a very bold statement. He says, "You should know that through Torah your are received. In other words, for some reason, Torah is a other words, for some reason, Torah is a catalyst to require or to foster a power of prayer. But the power of prayer is counterintuitive. Instead of instead of Rabb saying that the power of prayer is that your prayers become so powerful instead he focuses on the fact that you as a individual become so appealing. He calls this that you have grace and he says that the thing the grace that you have that creates the appeal is a derivative of two components appeal is a derivative of two components is comprised of two letters a and a and he says that the the comes from the language of which means life and he says that the wisdom there's a which says that wisdom revives the people that own it. And the way the says it is that when you perceive life, when you look at life, you can see life on two different two different levels,

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