We are the tefillin of Hashem.
One of the reasons for churban was bitul Torah. Learning Torah is a precursor to geula. Moshe rabeinu will not allow moshiach come to a bunch of am ha’aratzim. Geula will come when we re all oseik bTorah.
Devorah ha neviah was shown how the geula will look - people will learn Torah every day - either in beis medrash or beis kenneset. Sitting together larning Torah will bring the geula!
taz was son in law of bach.
bach prmised him meat every week, he was poor and he could only affrd lungs.
taz took him to a din torah - he’s not sure if lungs = meat. Bais din paskined yes.
why did he takehim to a din torah?
he knew his torah was suffering compared to his eating read red meat ion the tiniest fashion. He wanted to make sure there would be no t’via on his father in law in shamayim for that bitul Torah.
R’ Elya Lopia said in name of Alter - it’s kedai the entire briya that one person one time should say baruc hoo uvaruch shemo. And 1000 bhub’s isn’t worth one amen. And 1000 amens isn’t worth one yeheio shmei rabbah. And 1000 ys’r isn’t worth one word of Torah.
menashe was the politician, efraim was the scholar. We bless our children - be like efraim and menashe - we bless they should be full of Torah first.
They lo barchu baTorah techilla. They blessed children with gashmius first. We don’t have to make a new bracha every time we learn - just once a day, because we’re always involved in Torah - even when we step away from oiur books.
they had a hesech hdaas between learning with inyanei olam hazeh. Learning like that requires a brocho each time.
Learning when it’s hard makes it worth much more.
Government only had a zechus because they supported Torah learning. moshe Dayan was in support of yeshiva bachurim NOT being drafted. He said whe i was a boy i read poetry of bialik of yeshiva bochurim that the masmid is the strongest rock of klal yisroel. And i don’t want to push away that strong rock for klal yisroel,
when you aren’t machshiv torah you can be frum but cause churban. When you are machshiv torah you can be an apikores but still build klal yisroel.
limud hatorah is the koach of klal yisroel.
bayis shaini had apikorsim. The kapparah for that is esek batorah.
If you learn torah lishma you’ll have no problem quoting the source and saying bsheim omro. And that brings geula l’olam.
And learning has to be learning the pnimiyos of Torah - not just a mitzvah here, a mitzvah there.
Story of professor bertrand russel who taught ethics but was unethical. I’m not a triangle and i can still teach geometry. I don’t have to be what i teach, i just have to teach it. Character does not detract from chachma, that’s chachma. Not Torah.
if it doesn’t make a impession on you - it’s just stage fire, you’re not learning Torah.
you can listen l’kol Hashem without listening to b’kol Hashem.
you have to listen into the mitzvos.
shabbos is supposed to teach me about the way the world works and the ratzon of Hashem.

Story of rav shraga feivel mendlowitz who came home with a baal habas friday night and the house wasnt in order and the challah was uncovered.
Don’t you know you have to cover the challah?!
Most absurd - one of the reasons to cover the challah is to not ‘embarrass’ the challah.
He got the halacha down right - but he was missing the penimiyos hadavar. He didn’t get the point.
There’s another braisa - elu devarim shadam neenash aleheim baolam hazeh v keren kayemes lola haba - a’z g’a sh’d and loshon hara kenegged kulam,
talmid torah and loshon hara are at two ends of the spectrum.
Chaburah of kenayim who would learn to fill the void when the movie-house in geula would show the feature shows.
we need more kanayim like that.
Rav shach - how can i eat breakfast with an appetitte when there are a milliom yiddeshe kinderlach in eretz yisroel being picked up at this hour to go to learn kefira.
There’s no shortcuts. If you look for segulas and shortcuts - you’re not really machshiv Torah.(guess we hjave to do the 4th and 5th perakim after all). But if you are machshiv torah you will bring the geula.
Yaakov avinu fought with the yetzer hara who saw bacharis hayamim he would not be able to defeat those who learn tora bhasmada. So he hit him in thethigh - the place of support - the tomcheio Torah.
In order for tzedkah to bring geula it has to be money gotten bmishpat.
The government is losing its zechus kiyum - moshiach is going to come either in the zechus of those who are still learning bdocheik or in zechus of the tomche Torah.