Joodse traditie als permanent leren

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But where the need exists, a young Rabbi may make himself known in a place where he is not known.

((Place of Study))

246.22. It is a tradition established as firmly as a covenant that everyone who learns the Torah in a synagogue will not quickly forget it. Everyone who labors at his study in privacy will become learned, as it is said, "Wisdom is with the modest" (Prov. 11:2). He who studies audibly will retain what he learns; but he who studies without giving voice to the words he studies will quickly forget.

((Learning's Exclusive Claims))

246.23. He who wishes to attain to the crown of the Torah must be careful not to lose a single one of his evenings in sleeping, or eating, or drinking, or conversation, or similar ways of passing the time; but he must give them all up to the study of the Torah.

For the greater part of what a man learns, he learns at night. One should begin night study from the fifteenth of Ab. One who does not add to his knowledge is all the while diminishing it.

246.24. A household in which the study of the Torah is not heard at night will be consumed by fire.

246.25. One who is able to devote himself to the Torah and who does not do so, or one who has studied and has then turned aside to the frivolities of life, or who has neglected his learning and cast it aside, is one to whom apply these words, "For he has despised the word of the Lord and broken His commandment" (Num. 15:31).

It is forbidden to waste one's time in wordly conversation.

246.26. He who gives up his study of the Torah because he is rich will in the end have to give it up on account of poverty (Avot 4:11); while he who persists in the study of the Torah in poverty, will in the end continue it in wealth (Avot 4:11).

It is forbidden to study Torah in filthy places.

When one finishes the study of a complete section of the Talmud, it is a religious duty to have some general rejoicing and enjoy a repast, called a feast of religious obligation.