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Nefesh HaChaim: Unchanging Torah
Shaar 4:Chpt 27 - Most lights, as they descend from the upper realms, because weakened, causing their level of holiness to be reduced. However, this is not the case with Torah, which maintains its original and high level of holiness, even after its light descends into our mundane world. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: Highest Level of All
Shaar 4:Chpt 26 - Even prayer needs Torah learning to be heard, since the root of the holy Torah is above the level of everything else. Therefore, nothing survives without Torah learning. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: The Sin of Bitul Torah
Shaar 4:Chpt 25 - This chapter continues on with the theme of how destructive bitul Torah - the wasting of learning time - is to the world. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: A Torah Scholar Who Strays
Shaar 4:Chpt 24 - After showing all the wonderful results for learning Torah, the Nefesh HaChaim brings sources to show the dramatically negative impact of not learning Torah, especially one who can and doesn’t, and especially a Torah scholar who ceases to learn. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: If You Don’t Learn Torah
Shaar 4:Chpt 23 - After talking about the great things that happen for the person and the world when someone learns Torah, the Nefesh HaChaim brings the sources that speak about the opposite, when someone doesn’t learn Torah or, worse, they once did and stopped learning Torah. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: World Depends Upon Learning
Shaar 4:Chpt 22 - G-d is prepared to overlook the three worst types of sins, on some occasions. However, He never overlooks the disgracing of Torah, and when the Jewish people forsake Torah learning, then the world moves in the direction of destruction. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: No Eye Has Seen
Shaar 4:Chpt 21 - What awaits someone who devotes himself to the learning of Torah. The Hidden Light of Creation, for one, and all the secret reasons of the Torah that not even the prophets or angels are privy to.If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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Nefesh HaChaim: Better Than Prophets
Shaar 4:Chpt 20 - As the Talmud says, Torah scholars are “better” than prophets. In this chapter, the Nefesh HaChaim explains what this means, and why, as he continues to enhance one’s appreciation of the importance of learning Torah. If you have questions and comments for Rabbi Pinchas Winston, please email nefeshhachaim@ou.org. |
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