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Talmud Shabbat 10a teaches:
A person should not stop learning Torah in order to pray because his prayers are not effective.
The Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer (1720 – 1797), suggests the following interpretation of the Talmudic statement:
If a person doesn’t want to listen to a Torah teaching because he has already heard it, so, too, G – d will not accept his prayers because He has already heard them.
Once I was sitting next to a person at a Shabbat meal where a Rabbi just gave a Torah teaching. The person next to me said that he doesn’t need to listen, as he has already heard the same teaching before. When I told him the interpretation of the Vilna Gaon, the person immediately started to listen to the Rabbi.
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ReplyDeleteReally nice post!
As a Chosid, I never heard or read before that teaching of the Vilna Gaon.