Studying on Shabbat
Hello Rabbi, is there a source for the fact that studying Torah on Shabbat is considered higher? Is that so?
In common sense, this doesn’t seem to make sense to me, especially considering that we see the degree of action for the sake of Heaven as precisely what elevates the value of a particular mitzvah.
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Apparently, an act that is for the sake of heaven has a higher value.
And it seems to common sense that this is the only measure and not the time in which the act was done (Shabbat) to be of a higher degree. Especially when the act in the dry law is not specific to a specific time.
There is no connection. You are comparing Shabbat to the Sabbath when the act is done with the same intentions. For example: someone who studied for the sake of Heaven on the Sabbath versus the same person who studies for the sake of Heaven on the Sabbath. Or alternatively: someone who studied not for the sake of Heaven on the Sabbath versus the Sabbath. There is no point in comparing studying for the sake of Heaven on the Sabbath to studying not for the sake of Heaven on the Sabbath, or vice versa.
“The Kabbalists wrote, ‘The great work done in the business of Torah on Shabbat is a thousand times greater than the work done in the business of Torah on weekdays.’” (Second Year, in the introduction to Parashat Exodus).
Many thanks to Rabbi Walshi.
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