Saturday 31 May 2014

Shavuot: To Teach, To Learn, To Repent

Originally posted 5/18/13, 9:59 PM.

R Eliyahu Safran
« For the thoughtful Jew everyday is a Yom Matan Torah and Yom Hadin. Such an attitude might also help us understand Lag B'Omer, the thirty-third day of the counting of the Omer when, according to the Talmud, the plague that caused the death of 24,000 disciples of Rabbi Akiva ended.

24,000 brilliant young scholars! Lost! Our Sages ask why so many scholars died. According to Talmudic and Midrashic sources, they died because they did not sufficiently respect one another. Their scholarship, Torah learning, and erudition were taken for granted. For them, Torah learning was pursued as if any other knowledge, without an excitement, enthusiasm, and fire resulting in new insights, renewed motivation, and novel ideas. They reveled in their Torah brilliance rather than the brilliance of Torah. »

Shavuot: To Teach, To Learn, To Repent - Judaism - Israel National News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13293


Best Regards,
RRW

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