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<br>Rambam's Hakdamah - is actually the basis and infrastructure of Hilchos Talmud Torah. Without connecting the two, neither one is readable. Put them together and many passages in both suddenly become coherent and alive.. </blockquote>
</blockquote></blockquote><ol><ol><ol><li>Title Pasuk - Tehillim 119-6, Then I will not be embarrassed when I am examining deeply all of your Commandments - HOW does the upcoming recital of facts connect to that?</li><li>
[Body] The [written] commandments were given with their [orally transmitted] explications. He commanded us to do the Torah with its [oral] details and practices. </li><li>...line ten - the explanation of the details and meaning [Moshe Rabeinu was not allowed to write] Mosheh did not write it, rather he taught it and commanded them to [keep it whole and not add or subtract] </li>
<li>To the [70? ] elders to Yehoshua and to all of Israel </li><li>The oral commands/explanations of written commands, Those you you shall be careful to do - do not add or subtract to any of teh oral , were one large entire Body of Law, forbidden to add or subtract FROM THE ORAL LAW. (up to ilne 13 in Shabtai Frankel ed. Sefer Hamada volume) </li>
<li>And this is why it is called Orally Taught Law. </li><li>Line 14 - despite its unwritten [only orally taught] Moshe taught ALL OF IT in his court TO 70 ELDERS</li><li>[Although] all three - Elazar Hakohein and Pinchas ben Elazar and Yehoshua learned the [entire?] Oral Torah from Moshe - </li>
<li>Still to Yehoshua who was specifically his Talmid - Special student o fMosheh the teacher of us all - - he specifically gave Yehoshua "Achrayut" duty of of the Oral Teaching and specifically adjured him to carefully watch over it. </li>
<ol><li>Column 2 line 23 - Shmaya and Avtalyon "Geirei hatzedek" and their courtr accepted from...and Hillel and Shamai and their Courts accepted from them </li></ol></ol></ol></ol><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">=== Each generation has one person, or two people or 70 people whose job it is to teach the entire Torah to the next generation. Fact - it cannot be written!! So how does it survive for one generation much less for 3600 years and counting? Who is the guard who must learn it and keep it? </blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> There is no specific person appointed from birth!! Rather - each father brings up every child to become Moshe Rabeinu or Yehoshua. Each person then takes responsibility for as much of the Yedias Hatorah as is his ability at the moments. Even Moshe did not absorb it in one huge swallow - he learnt it piece by piece, and may have needed the spaces between Parshyas. </div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> Just as Moshe received whatever level he needed to stand on Har Sinai 40 days and forty nights - just so each potential Moshe Rabeinu or Yehoshua - will receive whatever help they need. Hillel's daily routine of working the time necessary to earn the bare minimum, spending the discretionary portion on Talmud Torah, that drive to become "MIMAATIKEI HASHEMUAH" was not unique to Hillel only. The dut is on every man, young, old, etc. </div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> The entire Torah - the indispensable instructions - must be learnt, redacted from mistakes and errors, and then given over to the next generation. The obligation - is as universal as the potential. Nobody is "less than equal" - all must step by step approach becoming the Gadol hador - in Rambam parlance Maatikei Hashemuah. The One Big Man who is crowned like Yehoshua - earned it by "the sweaat of his brow" did not relinquish the Tent of Moshe rabeinu. He let no law escape his hearing. </div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> This "universal draft" and "Maamad Har sinai" generated epic journey - is the obligation of every single person. The father is in best position to orient the child and initiate his journey, and if th eson learnds the entire Torah - That is a specific detail. </div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> Klal uprat, or in parlance "Tzurah v'chomer" - to the Rambam the Hakdama is the "acceptance of the Mission of the burden of the Call - for the entire Yad Hachazakah. One can envision him, first putting the hakdamah as part of Hilchos Talmud Torah, then putting the whole thing into the Hakdamah, then deciding to split the pieces - the Klal at the Preface - and the operational details in Hilchos Talmud Torah. </div>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> Important details include - the break when you hit Chapter one paragraph 12 - after Stage One you are put on Maintenance - fewer hours repeating the Laws he heard and absorbed from his teachers, and more time generating brand new insights and deeper novel connections. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> MOSHE BEN MAIMON, DOCTOR OF SOULS: </div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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Study and memorize each Written Law along with its Oral Law instructions. Continue and do not stop until you have learnt and remember all 613 Mitzvot. Then reduce review to one third of the day. The other two thirds - study how they fit together adding novel insights. <br>
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Repeat process as often as needed. </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>May we all arrive there on Atzeres - Shavuos coming soon - all agree that the Mitzvah of enjoying the material pleasures - "Lachem" is binding. </div>
<div> We have no time to idle away. By the end of Sefiras HaOmer - we have little choice but to complete the entire Torah. Then for one third of the day we will review what we learnt.. </div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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<div style="text-align:center">Looking forward to Yom Tov!</div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>