Bible Study on Tisha B’Av
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.
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.
Oh, Rabbi Michi, you are such a fool…
Where is your emotional identification (sad and blushing smiley)?
According to the rabbi, does the written Torah have no poetic value?
Shai,
My emotional identification, even if it existed, is irrelevant. Attitudes are determined with the head, not the stomach.
Y”D,
Why not?
In Gebra? I thought you claimed, at least about Bible study, that it is a Torah that apparently operates in a specific way that you do not understand, because it is difficult for you to extract new, specific insights from this study. No?
(In any case, if it is Torah that does not make you personally happy, perhaps it is no different for you than a study on matters of mourning).
The insights you produce are Torah in the form of a gebra. The very act of reading the Bible has indeed only some specific value. And in the sagas of the sages or Hasidism and thought, it is only Torah in the form of a gebra without the specific value.
(Indeed. This is what I wrote at the end of my words, half-jokingly)
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