Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Learning Torah - Summed Up In One Sentence

It's not how much you learn, it's how you learn.

posted by A Simple Jew @ 4:21 AM   6 comments

6 Comments:

At June 2, 2009 at 12:12:00 PM EDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can only learn so much in any one week. I have recently come to the conclusion that the best daily seder is just to learn WITHOUT any set yomi schedule. I have certain things I learn each day without fail, but HOW MUCH, I leave up to how much time I have.

I found that I was really burning out of Tanya because of the Chitas schedule. Once I switched to no schedule and went at my own pace, I enjoyed it much more...

 
At June 2, 2009 at 12:49:00 PM EDT, Blogger NoReply said...

So true.... sort of quality over quantity. I have just begun the 'Ethics of our Fathers' ....I think this might just take me a lifetime of contemplation.

 
At June 2, 2009 at 12:59:00 PM EDT, Blogger A Simple Jew said...

Related posting here

 
At June 2, 2009 at 1:36:00 PM EDT, Blogger Neil Harris said...

My Mashgiach in E"Y use to say something similar:
It's not how many hours you learn, but how many minutes in each hour you spend learning.

 
At June 2, 2009 at 3:35:00 PM EDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the way that chazal say it is echad hamarbeh v'echad hamamit ubikvad sheyechaven es libo lashamayim.

 
At June 5, 2009 at 12:10:00 AM EDT, Blogger Moshe David Tokayer said...

ASJ,

Is this a quote from somewhere? Thanks.

 

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