[Avodah] Does Daf Yomi Exemplify Talmud Torah?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:23:52PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
> See the citation from the author of the Tanya in AhS YD 246:17.

Paraphrasing the se'if:

R' Hai Gaon advises R' Shmuel haNagid (according to the Rivash) to have
everyone immese themselves in Mishnah and Talmud, and then even the amei
ha'aretz will be immersed in them and positively influenced -- and there
is no other way to aquire yir'as Shamayim, yir'as cheit, zerizus, anavah,
taharah or qedushah.

Which the AhS believes is even more necessary in his day, with the
rampant flight to heresy.

The Shakh and the Taz (s"q 1) quotes the Derishah that in his day (and
ours), with our lesser time allocated for learning, better to learn
halakhah pesuqah -- OC and the publicly relevent dinim of YD, CM, and EhE.

The SA HaRav... well it was unclear to me if he was being cited as
agreeing with the Derishah or establishing the next point. So I went to
SAhR OC 155:1 to look...

The SAhR says that a person should learn TSBK, TSBP, halakhos pesuqos,
talmud. But talmud can't be the tachlis of his learning, because he
first needs to know all that halakhah without deep sevaros, just to do
applied halakhah.

Back to the AhS....

However we have seen that if we tell them this -- presumably to focus on
applied halakhah -- they won't learn at all. People just want to learn
a daf gemara every day. So we shouldn't stop them, and halevai they keep
to it.

"Vekhol divrei Torah meshivas nafesh meivi'ah leyir'as Hashem tehorah!"

(To which I can only say: Barukh shekivanti ledaas R YM Epstein.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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