He will send out his roots.
Good week
On page 606, in a quote from the RIP, there was a typo:
“But our late Rabbi Gaon, the late Rabbi, neither heard nor understood this at all, and for this reason he listed every kind of sight that afflicts a person as a mitzvah in itself, and its taste and reasoning were with him…”
And may I remark that due to the abundance of material, it would have been appropriate to add the page number in the table of contents and references. Although in a PDF this is not so disruptive, when reading the book on Shabbat, the numbering could have been useful.
And with your permission, a point that occurred to me this week. The Gemara in 21 says:
Rav Yehuda said, Rav: However, remember that man well, and his name is Joshua ben Gamla, for if it were not for him, Torah would have been forgotten from Israel; in the beginning, whoever has a father – teaches him Torah, whoever does not have a father – would not have learned Torah, why is it needed? And you taught them – and you taught them, they established that they should sit down to teach infants in Jerusalem, why is it needed? For from Zion the Torah will come forth; and yet whoever has a father – would go up and teach, whoever does not have a father – would not go up and learn, they established that they should sit down in every province and province; and they would bring them in as a sixteen-year-old as a seventeen-year-old, and whoever his master was angry with him – would kick him and leave, until Joshua ben Gamla came and established that they should sit down to teach infants in every state and state and in every city and town, and they would bring them in as a six-year-old as a seven-year-old.
In the first and second stages, they required verses, in the third and fourth stages, they did not require verses. And why in the first stage, they did not require the previous verse: “And you shall teach it to your children”?
Maimonides, in the Talmud Torah, 1:2, wrote that every sage has a mitzvah to teach all students. From what I found, only the Gra cites sources for the ruling, and they are all legendary. Do you know of a halakhic source? And since you are an Athan, did you write about a legend as a halakhic source?
Regards
Chen Chen.
It is clear that all of these sermons are references to the Alma. It is clear that this is a regulation. Why was the previous verse not relied on? Perhaps the sermon is the opposite. Initially, only the fathers taught because “and you memorized.” And why shouldn’t others teach (at least those who don’t have a father)? Because they require “you” and not others (the sermon excludes others and does not include the father, who is certainly pluralized from “and you memorized for your children”). Perhaps there was also a place to study “and you taught them,” which came to include not only your children (beyond the previous verse), and therefore they taught them (and not them), for a different era.
Regarding the obligation to teach Torah to students, it is ostensibly included in the study of Torah itself (and Chazal already emphasized this in the Torah of kindness and that of non-kindness, and more). If there is a mitzvah to learn in general, there is also a mitzvah to teach. This seems reasonable to me. Without being taught, I will not be able to learn.
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