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The author of Bilvavi Mishkan Evne writes that, in order to make one's learning penetrate deeply, one should not be satisfied with learning a few hours a day, then continuing the next day, but should instead find one interesting problem/question during the day's learning, and think over it again and again all day long, during any free moment. This way one is ...
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Your question is asked in the sefer Beis Yitzchak. He answers that the original takanah was not about reading on Monday and Thursday, because the decree that the courts should sit on Monday and Thursday hadn't been decreed yet. That decree came later in the time of Ezra. Rather, the sages in the time of Mordechai decreed that the courts of later generations ...
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