Subject: In Memory of Baruch Yitzchak ben Yirmiyahu (Barry Pessin)
From: Heath Berkin <heath.berkin@gmail.com>
Date: 10/27/2017, 4:27 AM
To: Heath Berkin <heath.berkin@gmail.com>
BCC: menachem@alonsystems.com
The Mishna in Avos (6;1) Rebbi Meir says "anyone who is involved in Torah for it's sake (without ulterior motives), merits many things. Furthermore the entire world is worthy of being because of him"
The Mishna continues to delineate the various rewards of a person who learns Torah for it's sake.
Our Sages teach us that the entire creation was left hanging in balance on condition that the Jewish People would accept the Torah, if they would have not accepted the Torah (similar to the other nations who all rejected it) the world would have returned to a state of nothingness as it was in the beginning of creation. Our Sages tell us further that it is only through the constant study of Torah through which the world is sustained.
Again this may be hard to understand and internalize, but every time we take a few minutes to study Torah the impact is tremendous not only on a personal level but on a humanitarian level as well. Our outlook on the true scholars who study Torah must be very different than the way we view a professor of history, science, math etc. Those studies may or may not produce fruits which will impact society (and in many cases their theories help degrade and destroy society), but the humble scholars who study the Torah, with each word the study, they are having a profound impact on the entire world.
