Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Talmud Torah Chapter 2

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

any city that does not have the opportunity for each and every child to be able to be with a teacher to give them an education you excommunicate the people of that city you put a ban on them until they will establish such institutions where there are teachers giving the ability for every jewish child to be able to study torah because the world does not exist only due to the breath that comes out of the sacred mouths of the children who are learning torah the source of this is a fascinating the gemara speaks about an individual by the name of yahushua bengamla who was a goddess during the second base and the gemara says zach this person will be remembered for eternity shalom israel if not for him toyota would have been forgotten from the jewish people why the initial system that was established in the jewish world is that every father educates his son like we learned in the first chapter of the mother tonight every father has an obligation to teach his son taylor the moment he starts talking what happens if a child didn't have a father a child was left the child was abandoned in terms of an education so then they established that there should be teachers in yerushalayim kimitsi and sir advice so somebody who had a funds and to appreciate this you have to understand that in great britain and england a system of compulsory education only developed around 1870 and in the united states of america around the same time late 1800s or early 1900s talk about being ahead of your time more than 2 000 years ago the jewish people instituted that every single jewish child living in any town any city any village any region any land must be given the opportunity of a full

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6. 9:13you don't learn new material but you review the material even if it's the first time…
7. 10:48does the work of god deceptively teaching children is the work of hashem and to do…
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