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| * [[Shenayim Mikrah]] | | == Mitzvot of Talmud Torah == |
| * [[What should one learn daily?]] | | * [[Laws of Learning Torah]] |
| * [[Learning Tanach at night]] | | * [[Shenayim Mikrah]] ([[Reading The Weekly Torah Portion]]) |
| * [[Appropriate conduct of learning]] | | * [[Special Tefilla to Say Before and After Learning]] |
| * [[Respecting holy books]] | | * [[Where Is It Permissible to Learn Torah?]] |
| * [[Geniza]] | | * [[Bitul Torah]] ([[Not Wasting Time From Learning]]) |
| *[[Bitul Torah]] | | * [[Breaking up Pesukim and Paragraphs of Torah]] |
| | * [[Mitzvah to Learn Torah]] |
| | * [[Writing a Sefer Torah]] |
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| *[[Learning at day and night]] | | == Kavod HaTorah (Respect for Torah) == |
| | * [[Standing for a Talmid Chacham and for the elderly]] |
| | * [[Loving Torah Scholars (Talmidei Chachamim)]] |
| | * [[Respect for a Shul]] |
| | * [[Respecting Holy Books]] ([[Kedushat Sefarim]]) |
| | * [[Respecting a Sefer Torah]] |
| | * [[Geniza]] ([[Sheimos]]/[[Discarding Holy Material]]) |
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| *[[What to learn]] | | == Klalim (Rules) == |
| # Someone who only has 2 or 3 hours to learn daily should learn Halacha from Shulchan Aruch and commentaries or from contemporary Poskim so that one will be knowledgeable in practical laws and not come to do a sin without knowing. This is preferable than learning Daf Yomi, or Gemara and Rishonim from which one can’t derive practical halacha. <Ref> Derisha Y”D 246:6, Shach Y”D 246:5 write that someone who only has a little time should learn from the poskim as it says in Nidda 73a someone who learns Halachot every day is a Ben Olam Haba. Shulchan Aruch HaRav (Tamud Torah 2:9), Yarot Devash, Derech HaChaim, Sh”t Teshuva MeAhava (Introduction to 2nd volume), Sh”t Yachave Daat 6:52, Kaf HaChaim Palagi 29:9, Mishna Brurah 155:3, and Halacha Brurah 155:4 concur. </ref>
| | *[[Klalei HaTalmud]] ([[Talmudic Methodology]]) |
| # It’s important to learn Mussar daily more important than learning Mishna. <Ref> Birkei Yosef 1:9, Chaye Adam (Halachot Yom Kippur), Mishna Brurah 1:12, Halacha Brurah 155:4, and Halichot Olam (8 pg 336). </ref>
| | *[[Klalei HaPoskim]] |
| # Some have the righteous practice of learning Chok LeYisrael which is a daily learning regiment set up by the Arizal that includes pesukim from Torah, Nevuim, Ketuvim, Mishnayot, Gemara, Zohar, Halacha, and Mussar. <Ref> The source for such a schedule is the Arizal (Shaar Mitzvot VaEtchanan). Further on the topic, see the Machzik Bracha 156:6, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 27:3, Sh”t Shalmat Chaim Zonenfeld Y”D 89, Kaf HaChaim 132:6, 155:3, and Sh”t Yabea Omer (Y”D 4:31(5), O”C 9:108(79)). </ref>
| | *[[Klalei HaPsak (Halachic Decision Making)]] |
| # It’s forbidden for someone to learn Kabbalah unless has learned seriously all of Gemara and Poskim, and is a Talmud Chacham ingrained with Yirat Shamayim. One should protest if someone is teaching Kabbalah to the public especially if the teacher himself isn’t fitting to learn it. <Ref>Zohar (Pekudei 247b) describes the importance of learning the secrets of Torah and it’s reward. However the poskim write that one needs to have first learned Gemara and Poskim including Etz Chaim (pg 1d), Rama Y”D 246:4, Maharsha (Chagiga 13a), Shelah (Eser Maamarot 29b) and Sh”t Yachave Daat 4:47. </ref>
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| *[[Learning with a Chevruta or in a Chaburah]]
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| # Even though it is preferable and advantageous to learn with a Chevruta or in a Chabura nonetheless, one who learns by oneself, fulfills the Mitzvah Deoritta of Talmud Torah. <ref> Tanna Dvei Eliyaho 23 writes that Hashem finds favor in the Jewish people because they learn in groups (Chabura’s). Pirkei Avot 3:2-3 says that an individual who learns gets reward for learning, two who learn together have their Torah written in Hashem’s Sefer Zichronot and the Shechina is present, while ten who learn together have the Shechina precede the group in wait for their learning. Brachot 63b says that one really acquires his Torah that he learns in a Chabura. From the above it just seems that there are good levels of learning and then higher forms, yet from Tanit 7a which says that Talmidei Chachamim who learn by themselves are cursed, become foolish, and sin, it seems that learning as an individual is problematic. Nonetheless, because nowadays we learn from a Sefer it’s permissible (Halichot Olam 8 pg 390) and Yavetz (Introduction) writes that it doesn’t apply to learning in Israel where the air makes one wise. Even though, Maharal (Derech Chaim (Avot 3:3)) writes that learning by oneself even if one says it out loud isn’t considered Osek in Divrei Torah, Halichot Olam rejects using this for halachic implications because one makes Brachot HaTorah for Torah one learns by oneself and also Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha beginning of 155) writes that the mitzvah of Talmud Torah also applies to learning individually. </ref>
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| # When one learns one should learn out loud but it’s considered Talmud Torah even if one only thinks about it. <Ref>Halichot Olam (8 pg 390).
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