Rabbi Zev Leff: Torah Learning is Everything

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the topic is a very vast topic in 45 minutes i'm going to try to at least give you a synopsis of what the panorama of importance of torah study just to give you a little introduction we are in golis under ideal circumstances you would all under ideal circumstances you would all be living near me in eretz israel and the rabbis tell us why was eric's israel destroyed why was the basque dutch destroyed al-azvam they didn't make a blessing before they learned the torah and the way that's understood is and the way that's understood is the blessing appreciates the importance of what you're doing and how much a person has to put effort into what he's doing and they didn't feel the torah was important enough to make a blessing on and because of that eric's israel was destroyed the basarniktas was destroyed and the rabbis say even though there were much more serious sins they were they transgressed immorality they transgressed immorality and idolatry and murder but god was willing to forgive them for that but he didn't forgive them al-bitr torah for the fact that they did not appreciate the importance of learning torah so learning torah is a very very important thing much more than just to know what to do which is also important but there's many more aspects of torah learning than just as a means to be able to know how to fulfill the to be able to know how to fulfill the mitzvos the various commandments the first idea of torah learning is that which the rabbis tell us based on the following verse im lobrisi yom valaila juco somayamvares losanti if it wouldn't be for my covenant day and night which is a euphemism for the torah then i would not have created the world

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2. 3:43with that you can understand very difficult word of the rabbis gidola tom the torah yoser…
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4. 11:52shalom all its pathways lead to shalom that's what torah brings to in this world and…
5. 15:54it's too hard because it's impossible if you're a cohen you have commandments that no regular…
6. 19:59that even though there are two ways of coming to appreciate god one through creation and…
7. 24:06are are uh accosted with various issues in this world and various things in the world…
8. 28:08translated if you want to be able to neutralize your evil inclination torah study is the…
9. 32:14aspect of learning torah a person who learns torah recreates himself like a new person avraham…
10. 36:18bertram russell was a professor of ethics in city college in new york in the 1940s…

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