Torah study
In rabbinic literature, a heavy emphasis is placed on Torah study[1] for Jewish males, with women being exempt.
[2] This literature teaches an eagerness for such study and a thirst for knowledge that expands beyond the text of the Tanakh to the entire Oral Torah.
May it be God's Will 'that He open up our hearts with His Torah and that He should place Love and Fear of Him in our hearts' and thereby complete His intention in creating His Universe 'that the Universe will be rectified with His Sovereignty'The Torah is the Tree of Life to find true spiritual life, that is the Holy Spirit with the three Supernal Sefirot with Da'at and the others.
The study of Torah can give life and this can build a Temple in the inner dimension of person: God will not take the holy sacrifices but words of Torah and of prayers because in Messianic era the sins will be not and the little sins will be atoned through true force of soul in the heart (Neshama and Ruach with Nephesh) and words of truth on pure and holy mouth.
[citation needed] The text of the Torah can be studied on any of four levels as described in the Zohar:[citation needed] The initial letters of the words Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod, forming together the Hebrew word PaRDeS (also meaning "orchard"), became the designation for the four-way method of studying Torah, in which the mystical sense given in the Kabbalah was the highest point.
Once the mechanism by which a law works is rigidly and correctly defined, it can become clear that one aspect of the definition applies in one situation but not another.
This approach is most productive when a whole series of debates between two Rishonim can be shown to revolve around a single chakira, or difference in the understanding of a Talmudic concept.
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was the only one to set down the sages' thought process in an organized, systematic, and complete program that can be taught and reproduced.
It is claimed that based on precision and clarity of thinking, one's inherent intellectual powers are studied, cultivated and nurtured.
[42]) The Zilberman method has children focus exclusively on Tanakh and Mishnah in their younger years, ensuring that they know large portions of both areas by heart before they begin learning Gemara.
On Monday and Tuesday, the teacher chants the text with the tropp (ta'amei ha'mikra) and the students immediately imitate him.
Pious individuals thus often daily review one of the major works - Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Nach (Tanach), Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanchuma, Tosefta, Sifra, Sifri, Mishna, Rambam, Tur, Shulchan Aruch, Mishnah Berurah, the Zohar - according to their interest.
A typical d'var Torah imparts a life lesson, backed up by passages from texts such as the Talmud, Midrash, or more recent works.
In most congregations, it will not last much longer than fifteen minutes, but in the case of rebbes or special occasions, a d'var Torah can last all afternoon.
This will be on various occasions, [49] [50] [51] and not necessarily by a Rabbi: for example, by the host at their Shabbat table, by the leader before "Benching" (grace after meals), or by a guest at sheva brachot, or at any Seudat mitzvah.
Most denominations strongly recommend it, but also allow studying the Torah in other languages, and using Rashi and other commentary to learn language-specific information.
[53] After the Enlightenment, many Jews began to participate in wider European society, where they engaged in study related to critical methods of textual analysis, including both lower and higher criticism, the modern historical method, hermeneutics, and fields relevant to Bible study such as Near Eastern archaeology and linguistics.
Today, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis draw on the lessons of modern critical Bible scholarship as well as the traditional forms of Biblical exegesis.
While influenced by methods used in the yeshiva and in the university, non–religious Torah study includes the use of new tools that are not part of the accepted hermeneutic tradition of the exegetic literature.
Multi-year programs also exist: Hasidic and Haredi boys from abroad often spend many years studying in the Land of Israel.
Bnei Akiva offers a number of options to spend a year of study in Israel, as part of their Hachshara programs.
Since the truth is witness to itself, and is in agreement from all sides, it appears that the author of the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation) would agree with this.
