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The Chofetz Chaim on the Categorical Superiority of the Learning of the Rashbi

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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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  1. 0:00Progress. Okay, a freilich Lag B'Omer everyone. I was searching high and low for a Chofetz…
  2. 0:30Chofetz Chaim. A very nice lamdus on the Rashbi. The Gemara says in Shabbos 119a that…
  3. 1:01not mafsik learning for tefillah. Says Rabi Yochanan, "Only someone like the Rashbi she'teirasa umnasa." Freigt…
  4. 1:32is the respective importance of tefillah vis-a-vis Torah. What's more chashuv? If Torah is more chashuv,…
  5. 2:02don't eat for 3 days, you become critically weak. And if you don't eat properly for…
  6. 3:02for anything, that Torah was on such a high level. In fact, that Torah was greater…
  7. 3:32weaker. And therefore, what we will interrupt our Torah for tefillah because the the level of…
  8. 4:02when Torah is not learned consistently, ein ko'ach hakdusha sheba chazak ad k'dei lidchos tefillah u'kri'as…
  9. 4:34categorically different stratosphere. The more consistent we are in our limudim, the greater our Torah will…
  10. 5:04your kvi'us, you should consider like a debt. Like the Gemara says by Rav Achai bar…

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