Questions tagged [torah-study]
Questions about the mitzvah to study Torah, and the nature of Torah study. This tag is not intended to be a general tag about Torah. Almost every question on the site is about Torah in some sense. If your question is about a passage in the Bible, try one of the book tags.
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How many hours a day should we dedicate to spending time with our children vs. learning?
As far as I can tell from experience, common wisdom, common sense and perhaps my Torah learning, it seems quality time spent talking, playing and generally interacting with one's parents is like ...
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The relationship between Rabbi Akiva and his wife
The Talmud tells us about the relationship between Rabbi Akiva and his wife:
The daughter of Ben Kalba Savua told [Akiva]: If I betroth myself to you, will you go ... learn Torah? He said: Yes... He ...
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What's the difference between a Minhag and a takkanah [duplicate]
What is the difference between a Minhag and Takkanah?
I know for example Rav Gershoms takkanah that a man is not allowed to divorce a woman against her own will is a Takkanah what's the difference ...
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Does G-d desire relationship?
From where was it derived that G-d wants to have companionship/relationship with man? On what basis has it been concluded that the Almighty seeks to have a personal relationship with man?
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What is the minimum amount of Torah knowledge to not be considered an am Haaretz?
Rebbi Yehudah held bad things come into the world on account of amei haaretz. What is the minimum amount of Torah one would have to know to not be considered an am haaretz? Who would this apply to if ...
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What is the underlying purpose of Tzadakah?
Is the purpose of Tzadakah to simply feed and house the poor, if so why did Hillel give the rich man a horse and run before him?
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Meaning of the word בר in Proverbs 31:2
I'm a ben Noach. I was studying the use of the word בר in the Mishlei Shlomoh and I noticed that many important translations translate Proverbs 31:2 as follows:
"What, my son? and what, son of ...
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I am looking for a pasuk that has to do with doors or entranceways [closed]
I am a photographer and am in the midst of a project where I took many different, beautiful, unique doors from the old city of Yerushalayim and Tzfas. I plan to make a collage of all the doors, and ...
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Is there a way to figure out which mefarshim to look at for parsha?
A mikro'os gedolos chumash has several different mefarshim's explanations on each passuk of each parsha. Obviously every single word of these commentaries are unfathomably valuable to our ...
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New rivers that will spring during The World to Come?
Once in the past, I read an article online (Now I don't remember where exactly), that says that during the messianic age or the world to come, there will be a phenomenon of the appearance of new ...
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List of Seforim that Collect Midrashim on the Parsha
I'm looking for a list of seforim that collect midrashim on the Parsha. In particular, I am looking for a sefer or seforim that can help me see what happens between the lines of the pesukim according ...
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Rebbe Nachman of Breslov - "science tells you how, Torah tells you why". Anyone have a source for this?
Heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gag_myt1hWw
Is this quotation correct? If so, where is the source? Thank you.
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Is there a Zohar Yomi?
I know about the Daf Yomi and Rambam Yomi learning schedules. Is there an active organization of a Zohar Yomi learning schedule though? Does someone know?
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Learning out loud vs. learning quietly
In Yeshiva, I was taught it is best to learn out loud when learning from a sefer, and ideally with a pleasant song. I've seen many sources since then that mention it. Some people find this hard, ...
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The Alter Rebbe's view of chazarah - is it followed in practice?
Related: comment thread in What should a Jew learn regularly?
In the end of the Shulchan Aruch Harav Yoreh Deah, chelek ה, the Alter Rebbe has a wonderful exposition on the laws of Talmud Torah. In ...
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Touching A Tanach Before Netilat Yadayim
Can one touch a Tanach, not Torah scroll, before doing netilat yadayim?
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Online edition of Kuntres Tiferes Dovid
In the recently published sefer, Bircas HaTorah, Bringing Torah To Life And Life To Torah by Rabbi Nissim Tagger, a Kuntres is cited. It seems to be a Kuntres by Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz ztz"l, a ...
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Are there any sources for types of learning to memorize?
I am interesting in working on memorizing something - anything that I can have with me in my head that I can review at random times throughout the day. In terms of the “what” to memorize, I am curious ...
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Purpose of Learning Gemara
Disclaimer: I am Jewish. Don't get thrown off by the Arabic name. I can't login into my original stackexchange account. This is a pseudo twitter login account I use here.
I am wondering if someone can ...
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Resources to improve my Hebrew to learn Halachic works?
My Hebrew is solid - I am able to get around Israel. When I learn works of Halacha (Aruch HaShulchan, Mishna Berura, Kitzur) I am not able to follow due to not knowing words and acronyms. What is a ...
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Where does the phrase "Shamaitsa Aliba D’Hilchasa" come from?
Recently I’ve come across the phrase:
Shamaitsa Aliba D’Hilchasa
What does this mean, and more specifically, where does it come from (Shas, Poskim?)
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Learning advice from the Chazon Ish
The Chazon Ish, in his sefer Kovetz Igros Chazon Ish (paragraph 3), mentions a certain advice concerning Torah study.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt"l mentions this teaching in his Orchos Yosher (p. 172; ...
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How can all explanations of the Torah be True when they contradict each other (eilu v'eilu)?
I've read multiple questions/answers that discuss Eilu V'eilu. However, the seem to always come back to the discussion of how it applies to Halacha. My question is stemming from somewhere else.
If ...
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Who must not study Torah?
The Talmud says:
The Sages taught that there are three for whom the Holy One, Blessed be He, cries every day: (1) For one who is able to engage in Torah study and does not; (2) for one who is unable ...
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"Torah scholars decrease" - what does the Gemara teaches us?
There's a principle that the redemption only comes after a series of severe troubles (see: אוצרות הרב יצחק אברבנאל, p. 124)
יש לדעת כי הגאולה הרוממה באה רק אחרי רצף של צרות קשות
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Mitzvah to learn “day and night” - what are the time parameters?
The Rambam writes in Hilchos Talmud Torah:
כָּל אִישׁ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל חַיָּב בְּתַלְמוּד תּוֹרָה בֵּין עָנִי בֵּין עָשִׁיר בֵּין שָׁלֵם בְּגוּפוֹ בֵּין בַּעַל יִסּוּרִין בֵּין בָּחוּר בֵּין שֶׁהָיָה ...
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Is there a structure of authority levels for Jewish texts?
Is there some sort of a structure as to which source holds more authority than another? I see many people quoting the Talmud, Rambam, etc. Being ignorant of the writings outside of the Tanakh ...
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How many 6 hour learning session did the Vilna Gaon have every day?
I came up with my own schedule for myself. The best I could do was two options:
Wake up at 5am or 5:30am. Daven Shacharis. Learn from 7:00am to 1:00am. Daven Mincha. Exercise for an hour. Rest up a ...
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When is learning "done"?
I learn with a group of people each week and we take turns leading. I need a lot of time to prepare and usually start a week in advance. I read and review multiple times during the week. If I am ...
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Why did Abraham give everything he had for the mission of Eliezer?
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In parshas Chayei Sarah it says that Eliezer went with "all the good of his master in his hand", and Rashi says that it means that Avraham wrote a document, worth all of his ...
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What are general principles good for?
In Kiddushin 34a:4 in the context of hakhel it states
אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן אֵין לְמֵדִין מִן הַכְּלָלוֹת וַאֲפִילּוּ
בִּמְקוֹם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ חוּץ R. Yohanan said: We cannot learn from
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Can women wear jeans? [duplicate]
Deuteronomy 22:5 states women can not wear male clothing and vice versa for men. Today men do not want to wear dresses, bra's, high heels or skirts. This will forever be the case but many women wear ...
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Sefer Chossen Yehoshua on diligence in Torah study
Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt"l, in his Orchos Yosher (p.91 and 396 in the new edition) recommends reading Sefer Chossen Yehoshua chapter 1, where the topic of diligence in Torah study is greatly ...
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Can a gentile read the Torah [duplicate]
Can a gentile read the torah? I've heard numerous people say that studying the torah is forbidden to a gentile , under the penalty of death. My question is, what exactly does the word "study"...
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Why does the yeshiva system focus mainly on the study of the talmud? [duplicate]
It seems, almost across the board, that most yeshivas spent the majority of their time studying the talmud while allocating very little (if any) time towards the study of other critical judaic texts ...
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Torah as a gift: prerequisite for remembering
The Gemara in Nedarim 38a shares a teaching from Rabbi Yochanan, that, at first, Moshe Rabbeinu would study Torah but forget. Once the Torah became a gift, he would rembember it:
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Torah commentaries in modern Hebrew
I’m not sure if such thing exists, but I wonder if there are books which contain classical (if it has modern ones, also fine, but not necessarily) Torah commentaries in Modern Hebrew? What I mean is: ...
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Is Chokhmah Inquiry?
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I am seeking chokhmah and having difficulty (for my sins - Mishlei 1:24-26).
My question is: is chokhmah inquiry? In other words, is it the pursuit of answers to questions in one’s heart, ...
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Children of Israel being crowned with the crown of Torah - Messianic Era
The Rambam in his Hilchos Talmud Torah 3:1 says:
The crown of Torah is set aside, waiting, and ready for each Jew, as [implied by Deuteronomy 33:4]: "The Torah which Moses commanded us is the ...
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Sources identification of the Steipler Gaon
I've read in an article that the Steipler Gaon, Rav Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky zt"l wrote:
I’ve seen many who were thought in their youth to be incapable of succeeding, yet over time they grew to ...
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Etz Chaim and Torah
What’s the link between Etz Hachaim from Gan Eden and the fact that the Torah itself calls, well, itself, “etz chaim”? Does it maybe have something to do with this thought: although you, Adam, didn’t ...
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Evidence for the divine inspiration of the Torah
What evidence is there that the Torah was divinely inspired? Historical evidence, prophecies, etc, for example.
Further reading on this topic would be appreciated.
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Limud HaRambam by all Yidden
Do non-Lubavitchers learn Rambam (any of the cycles divided by the Rebbe)?
I know that when the Rebbe launched the campaign he intended that all Yidden join.
How did that come about?
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Is doing mitzvos, specifically thought mitzvos, allowed in the bathroom? [duplicate]
It is brought down by various poskim that Torah study is forbidden in the bathroom, albeit it is a debate whether today’s bathrooms have the same status.
May one perform mitzvos in a bathroom? ...
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Do any poskim permit one to recite Parshas Hamon on Tisha b’Av?
Do any poskim permit one who says parshas hamon daily the rest of the year to recite parshas hamon on tisha b’av as well? And if so, which poskim?
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Catholic interested in learning about Judaism ✡️ & learning Hebrew to better understand the difference between the Bible & the Torah 🙏
I don’t know much about the Jewish Faith. During my younger years I attended Catholic School until 10th grade. Recently I have become stronger Spiritually, I’ve always had a strong curiousity about ...
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Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna information?
I am doing an essay on Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna and I need information on him and if possible a translation of his works into English though I could use Google translate if I can't find one. What was ...
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Is it wrong to have bad thoughts if you feel bad about them?
What is the sentiment on having bad unholy thoughts though I know they are wrong and feeling bad about them. For example if I interact with say a street sweeper and think 'I am superior to you' though ...
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What do the Nephilim represent? [duplicate]
There are some underlying beliefs around Nephilim that migtht make people feel uncomfortable, but I think are applicable and a pattern of human behavior, in particular human sexual behavior, of which ...
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Is a gentile who studies the Torah liable to death or highest respect?
In Sanhedrin 59a it is written that a Gentile who studies the Torah is liable to receive the death penalty. Maimonides also confirms this in Melachim uMilchamot 8:10.
However, there is an apparent ...
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