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Bible Study on Tisha B'Av

ResponseCategory: HalachaBible Study on Tisha B'Av
D asked 7 years ago

In light of your ingenious definition of "study", is it permissible to study (I couldn't find another word) the Bible, the legends of the Hasidic sages and Jewish thought on Tisha B'Av? After all, you have logically proven that "studying" them is not called "studying" at all.

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Michi Staff answered 7 years ago

I assume you're writing ironically. Anyway, thanks for the compliment, as I defined it.
My argument is that it is studying Torah in a gabra (it arouses in you thoughts that could be Torah). Furthermore, even repeating the study of halakhic studies is not study in the same sense (since there is nothing new here but the internalization of what I already know). Therefore, it seems to be forbidden. Although in terms of suffering and boredom, it seems to me that it is a noble occupation for fasting.

Shai Zilberstein replied 7 years ago

Oh, Rabbi Michi, you are such a fool…
Where is your emotional identification (sad and blushing smiley)?

hand. replied 7 years ago

According to the rabbi, does the written Torah have no poetic value?

mikyab Staff replied 7 years ago

gift,
My emotional identification, even if it existed, is irrelevant. Positions are determined with the head, not the stomach.

hand,
Why not?

Ronnie replied 7 years ago

In a gebra? I thought you claimed, at least about Bible study, that it is a Torah in the flesh that apparently operates in a specific way that you do not understand, because it is difficult for you to extract new, defined insights from this study. No?

(In any case, if this is a Torah that does not make you personally happy, perhaps it is no different for you than a study on matters of mourning.)

mikyab Staff replied 7 years ago

The insights you produce are Torah in the grand scheme of things. The very act of reading the Bible has only some special value. And in the sagas of the sages or Hasidism and thought, this is only Torah in the grand scheme of things without the special value.
(Indeed. That's what I wrote at the end of my remarks, half-jokingly)

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