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Daf Yomi Wisdom
2020-Jan-12, Sunday 11:55
I'm not doing it, but I'm following a lot of people who are.
If you're not familiar, "Daf Yomi" is the practice of studying one page (דף daf) of the Talmud every day (יום yom), and if you keep at it, you'll finish the entire Talmud in seven and a half years. The end of this process is called סיום הש"ס Siyum haShas ("Completion of the Six Orders") and the most recent Siyum haShas took place on January 4th, so a bunch of people have hopped on the train.
A couple days ago was Berakhot 6b, and there among the discussion of how one should run into the synagogue but walk slowly out of it so as to show eagerness to worship and unwillingness to depart--there's a lot of stuff in the Talmud--there was this passage:
Bringing happiness to each other is as meritorious as rebuilding Jerusalem. Especially nowadays, that's a message I think could do with more repetition.
Next year, in the Jerusalem we build with our kindness to each other.
Also, I really love the currently listening to song. It's, well, punk music with lyrics taken from Ecclesiastes. The main chorus is הבל הבלים הכל הבל Havel havalim hakol havel, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
If you're not familiar, "Daf Yomi" is the practice of studying one page (דף daf) of the Talmud every day (יום yom), and if you keep at it, you'll finish the entire Talmud in seven and a half years. The end of this process is called סיום הש"ס Siyum haShas ("Completion of the Six Orders") and the most recent Siyum haShas took place on January 4th, so a bunch of people have hopped on the train.
A couple days ago was Berakhot 6b, and there among the discussion of how one should run into the synagogue but walk slowly out of it so as to show eagerness to worship and unwillingness to depart--there's a lot of stuff in the Talmud--there was this passage:
"Rabbi Abbahu said: The reward for causing a groom to rejoice is the same as if one had offered a thanks-offering in the Temple, for as it is stated later in the previously cited verse from Jeremiah: 'Those who bring a thanks-offering to the house of the Lord.'I love this.
And Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: The reward for causing a groom to rejoice is the same as if one rebuilt one of Jerusalem’s ruins, as it is stated later in the same verse: 'For I will restore the captivity of the land as it was in the beginning.' "
-Source
Bringing happiness to each other is as meritorious as rebuilding Jerusalem. Especially nowadays, that's a message I think could do with more repetition.Next year, in the Jerusalem we build with our kindness to each other.
Also, I really love the currently listening to song. It's, well, punk music with lyrics taken from Ecclesiastes. The main chorus is הבל הבלים הכל הבל Havel havalim hakol havel, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
