17 Adar - Talmud Torah 3

0:00In his time of Terry Paragymol, the Ramam gives us a perspective on how to approach learning Torah. The Ramam begins by seeing that there are three crowns that exist in Yiddish Kite, there were given to Jews, there is a crown of Torah, the crown of Kahuna priesthood, and the crown of Mahos of kingship. The crown of Kahuna was given to Ahrin, the crown of kingship was given to David, and the crown of Torah is available to anyone, and the crown of Torah is greater than all of them, and that any person could learn Torah and receive the crown of Torah. The Chachamim said that a man who is a Ta'am al-Kha'am precedes a Ka'ingadal who is the Ahma Ahrin. Now, in Torah, there is no Mitzvah, there is greater than all the Mitzvahs, then learning Torah. Terror is compared to doing all the Mitzvahs, and so therefore, learning Torah precedes any Mitzvah. If a Mitzvah, if an opportunity to do a Mitzvah comes, and it's possible to do through somebody else, then a person should continue learning Torah, but if it's an opportunity, if it's a Mitzvah that no one else can do, then the person should do the Mitzvah, and they're in turn to learning Torah.

1:01A person is first judged on their learning, and so therefore, it's most important that a person learns Torah, even if it's not for ultra-wistered reasons, because even if we learn not Lishma for external reasons, we will come to learn it through ultra-wistered reasons, like the Ram'am Qul-Sumah-Kha'amim. Someone who wants to gather, get the crown of Torah, he should not focus on other things like trying to acquire wealth at the same time, rather he should focus also on learning Torah, and the more a person struggles to learn Torah, the more their reward is. A person might say based on this, maybe first I should get riches, and then I'll be able to learn Torah properly, and so therefore, the Ram'am says, no, a person should focus make Torah their mainstay, and do their work as a sighting. The Ram'am will continue and explain a little further that they should still do work, but that shouldn't be their focus. A person should minimize their, the Ram'am continues with saying a person should minimize their business, and to focus on learning Torah.

2:02Torah is also compared to water, and so just like water goes to a low place, so to Torah permeates mostly someone who is humble, and so the Ram'am focuses on the idea that a person should be humble when learning Torah. Whoever does want to learn Torah should not say, let me not do any work and focus only on Torah and get my sustenance from Tadaka. A person does what he's doing in Khilash, and the Ram'am says, and it's also to do that. There's a great advantage to having, having a partner from his own work, and the first Khatsidim would do this to Ram'am says. The Ram'am finishes off by saying that the words of Torah is only last by someone who works hard to get them, and not from doing it through pleasure, but rather through self-discipline. And if a Ram'am said that whoever toils and Torah in the base of medrish, the Torah will not, he will not forget the Torah very quickly at all. And someone who focuses and toils quietly on the side privately becomes wise, and whoever

3:08says the words of Torah while, and they hear their voice while they're saying it, it lasts in them as well. And though it submits what to learn by day and by night, a person gets gathers most of his wisdom by night, the Ram'am says. And so therefore someone who wants to get the Khatsidirah should focus on learning also by nights. And the Khachamam says that whoever does not do the Torah when they're wealthy, they will end up not doing it when they're poor, and someone who doesn't when they're poor will eventually do it when they're rich.