[Avodah] VeHaGita - Proof....sources and quotes

[Daniel Eidensohn]

Reb' Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
>> From: "Shoshana L. Boublil"
>>     
>>> RSB: Who was it that said that saying Shma in the morning and Shma in the
>>> evening is sufficient to be Yotzeh "Vehagita Bo Yomam VaLayla"?  Last I
>>> checked, it was in the G'mara...
>>>       
>> SBA > That is a bedieved - and not lekatchileh.
>>
>> Proof?....sources and quotes).
>>     
Igros Moshe(YD IV 36.3 page 223 discusses the issue of Menachos (99b).

He says that in fact there are two separate mitzvos of Torah study 1) To 
learn all of the written and oral Torah 2) to learn twice a day. He 
cites the Rambam (Talmud Torah 1:8) that Shema does not count for Torah 
study but one must learn twice a day.

There is further discussion of this Igros Moshe YD IV #36.8 page 229 and 
#36.15 p233  He say that even one who learns regularly - but it is not 
his prime focus in life - is not called a ben Torah.


Daniel Eidensohn