[Avodah] why stop learning?

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 12:21:34PM -0800, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: http://yeranenyaakov.blogspot.com/2012/02/please-pray-for-rav-elyashiv-shlita.html 
: why does tfila of talmidei chachamim /tora learners help more than the
: learning of tora learners?

I think your question only works if we believe that davening and learning
operate on the same axis. Then we can rank which is bigger / further along
that axis. And so, if learning is the greater mitzvah, why would it pay to
interrupt learning for davening?

But if, OTOH, they operate in different "directions", then it could be
simply that tefillah is more appropriate for baqashos, even if learning
is more effective / important in numerous other ways.

If there are numerous ways of measuring mitzvos, that we have 613 mitzvos
because we need to be acted upon in 613 different ways (keneged rema"ch
eivarim ve-shesa"h gideihem), then "talmud Torah keneged kulam" doesn't
tell the whole story. And so tzitzis too can have "tarya"g mitzvos teluyim
bah". Or yishuv EY, or milah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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