{"id":47517,"date":"2019-05-27T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=47517"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:52:41","slug":"the-lomdus-of-birchat-hatorah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the-lomdus-of-birchat-hatorah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steipler and Levush Uncover the Lomdus of Birchat HaTorah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rashba asks: Why don&#8217;t we recite Birchat HaTorah when we finish learning as we do when receiving an aliyah to the Torah? Because we don&#8217;t make a bracha when mitzvot are over. The Steipler asks: What kind of question is that &#8211; the reason should be because we never finish learning!<\/p>\n<p>When you make a neder not to derive benefit from someone why are you prohibited from using his sefarim &#8211; shouldn&#8217;t we say \u05de\u05e6\u05d5\u05d5\u05ea \u05dc\u05d0\u05d5 \u05dc\u05d9\u05d4\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u05d5?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/r-glatstein-birchat-hatorah.pdf\">Download the Mekorot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shiur provided courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torahanytime.com\/\"><strong>Torah Anytime<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-47517 wp-image-36223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/torah\/files\/TorahAnyTimeLogo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Torah Anytime Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rashba asks: Why don&#8217;t we recite Birchat HaTorah when we finish learning as we do when receiving an aliyah to the Torah? Because we don&#8217;t make a bracha when mitzvot are over. The Steipler asks: What kind of question is that &#8211; the reason should be because we never finish learning! When you make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133454,"featured_media":47518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shavuot","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Steipler and Levush Uncover the Lomdus of Birchat HaTorah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why don&#039;t we recite Birchat HaTorah when we finish learning as we do when receiving an aliyah to the Torah? 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