Enlightenment Through Torah Study

 

Shas Man

By Rabbi Pinchas Winston

This book expounds upon the mystical benefits of Talmud Study.  Studying Talmud and really understanding it can take a lifetime if not more. Fir4st off a bit of history. According to the rabbis, Moshe first received the written and oral torah on Mount Sinai. The written word was revealed while the oral torah was kept oral and known to select few.  Enter the second temple period and you have a severe roman occupation and persecution. The Oral Torah was in danger of being lost or no remembered so Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi codified the oral torah into the mishneh torah. The Mishneh would be studied and later on the commentary would be added and the commentary plus the oral law equals the talmud. There are two talmuds. One is Talmud Yerushalmi and the other is Talmud Bavli. One written in Jerusalem and the other in what is modern day Iraq.

To become a Shas man one must not only study talmud bu also le the talmud flow hough them. There is a holy liht that Hashem concealed during the time of creation. that light light is called Ohr Haganuz. It was saved for only the righteous to view in the world to come. The book is concise and kabbalistic in nature. Covering numerology and gematria. The book covers some rather intersting topics. One is hisbatlus. A person who has this exudes the service of god. They do not care what others think. They believe their success comes rom god and not self confidence. Jes especially the Chasidim believe in serving hashem with joy and  positivity. Negative thinking can bring you down while being positive can uplift you and help you serve Hashem. Thinking about past mistakes can bring us down. Set back in torah study can set us back. Here is a word of advice, " Build on positive past memories, not on negative ones. Train yourself to say, “The past is the past. This is a new experience, a new beginning, no matter how many times I have done this in the past. I am not interested in what has happened until now, only in what I can accomplish this time around.”

Great book just too short.