[Avodah] why stop learning?

[Zev Sero]

On 8/02/2012 3:36 PM, David Riceman wrote:
> Where is the evidence that learning or doing chessed "for the zchus" of a person has any effect? What mechanism induces that effect?

1. The story of Rabbi Akiva having a rasha's son say kaddish for his
zechus.

2. Yissachar/Zevulun

3. The gemara in Rosh Hashana 4a about giving tzedaka "so that my son
should live"



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                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
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