[Avodah] Talmid Torah

[A & C Walters]

> The reason I think it is important to articulate this is because there
> has always been a tendency for those engaged in Torah to be tempted to
> say "oh well, that means I don't need to daven" or "Oh well, that means
> I don't need to engage in chessed mitzvos such as being mesameach chatan
> v'kala or accompanying a meis" because I am engaged in talmid torah.
> After all, talmid torah keneged kulom.  But, as I hope you all know,
> this is not the way we pasken (do I need to bring all the sources for
> this?, the gemora deals with these points explictly.)  Hence I would
> second the statement that "this is so wrong" before anybody gets any
> ideas.

It is paskened explicitly that someone who is "toyroso umnoso" is poter even 
from davening. (From a practical view it is not relevant these days, as the 
geder of to"um is that of RSBY, but theoretically we see that TT kneged 
kulum, only we don't have enough TT)

The binyan Oylom brings much valuable information on the subject; see then 
from perek 1.

The Rambam (hil. TT 3:4) paskens if you have if front of you either to do a 
mitzveh or TT, if someone else could do the mitzveh, it's better to carry on 
learning, only if no-one else could do that mitzveh, then you can interupt 
the learning, do the mitzveh, then resume the learning.

See also the Kesef mishneh that brings the source: (also brought by Rosh in 
Kusubos perek 2 siman 5)  from a yerushalmi pesochim 3:7 that says: "R' 
Avohu sent his son to learn Torah in Tiveria. [whilst there, the son did the 
mitzeh of] koyve'es meis, [his father asked him sarcastically] are there no 
kevorim locally that I had to send you to Tiveria [to do this mitzveh]. 
Therefore we see that TT koydem lemayseh, but this is only if there is 
someone else available to do the mitzveh, but if not, one could interupt 
learning for the mayseh"

The reason is brought bishnoys eliyohu perek 1 peah "...every word that a 
person learns is a mitzveh...one blat is many hundreds of 
mitzvehs...obviously 100 mitzeves is better that just one"

The Taz YD 251:6 brings down RSh"L that asks the question, that how can it 
it be that the ShOr paskens that one can interupt learning for hatzolos 
nefoshos, for it says "TT is bigger that Hatz"Nef" and on this the RSh"L 
bleibs shver. The Taz answers that obviously "nothing comes before Pik"Nef", 
but when it says "TT is bigger" is is referering to the schar. Someone who 
is lucky enough to be able to learn and not have to get involved with 
Hat"Nef gets more schar than one who does the Hat"Nef (obviously one who has 
in fromt of him both, has no choice but to do the Hat"Nef, but he gets less 
schar than if the situation would never have occured.


Avrohom Yitszkhok Walters
Beis Shemesh

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