Today’s Daf Session should be a merit for
Reuvein ben Sheindel and Nochum Dovid ben Tzipporah
Who wants to be challenged? We certainly don’t ask for it. But sometimes Hashem challenges us to induce growth and greatness.
In this session we explore the role of challenge and in what ways we embrace challenge and in what ways we look to avoid it.
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Quick Review:
Concept of Nisayon: To bring potential into practical manifestation
Neis= Banner / Neis= Miracle
Adversity causes greater merit, like tension increase of coach
1) Check behavior, 2) Bitul Torah, 3) Yesurim shel ahava
“Prefer not to have it” – But someone else must reach out to help.
Points you don’t want to miss:
On 5b, Rabbi Yochanan was able to release others from their distress by giving them a hand. But when Rabbi Yochanan was in his own distress, he could not release himself without someone else’s assistance. This teaches us that even the most capable person, when personally distressed, needs an outsider to provide a helping hand and a good word.
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A Torah scholar is constantly reviewing his learning (Brachos 5a). Why is this so? Because Torah is described as “Uf” like an “Of,” a bird. If you don’t pay close attention to it, it will fly away. Only through constant review will one retain Torah. This is good reason to take notes, and to discuss learning with a Chavrusa, as these are methods of review and ways to achieve clarity.
I am very much enjoying Take Ten for Talmud, and I am grateful that now that I am retired, I have the time to finally study with Rabbi Rhine each day, accompanied by a text, and can take advantage of Rabbi Rhine’s amazing accomplishment of putting together a complete library of commentaries on each daf of the Talmud. Yasher Koach and thank you! I look forward to staying with this, and learning from others who are learning with me.
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