Timeline for Interrupting learning to reflect on creation is a cause of mortal guilt. Why is this so bad?
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 14:00 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Without you describing and defending a particular conceptualization of bittul torah this answer isn't helpful. Clearly the questioner knew that bittul torah was at play here but didn't understand why it would have this effect. You need to explain it, not just say "Bittul Torah is bad" when everyone knew that. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:56 | history | edited | Dani | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:54 | comment | added | Dani | See these questions for laws of bittul Torah. judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/37765/…, judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/30840/… | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:53 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Why though is it more מבטל תורה to stop learning than to never have been learning? Surely the latter is less time spent learning total. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:52 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | I tend to agree, and that was apparent in the story. It doesn't support what you wrote though. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | Dani | The reason he is considered mortally guilty is because he stopped learning. If he wasn't learning previously, he would be fine. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:49 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Why do you describe not learning Torah to deal with a different mitzva of ahavat and yirat hashem as bittul torah? Is it bittul torah to shake a lulav? | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | What does the Bartenura add here that you quote him? | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | So the Rambam's encouragement of studying nature is only for people who don't know how to study Torah? Seems counterintuitive as the Rambam himself seems to have studied nature and Torah. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 13:42 | history | answered | Dani | CC BY-SA 4.0 |