Avi K:
“What do you think you’ll find in the Beis Midrash?” Some learners and many empty seats.”
Did you ever actually check it out yourself, or is this just the assumption you’ve made based on your preconceived notions?
Do yourself a favor and visit the Mir Yeshiva during seder, and try finding an empty seat. Here’s a hint: you won’t.
ROB:
Torah and mitzvos protect us. We say it twice a day. Sure, bad things have happened while we had (some) Torah learning, but perhaps if we had less learning, they would’ve been worse.
“You can always claim that- if not this or that- there would be more-but this is your false assumption and you cannot, for one moment,prove it.”
It says it on the Torah. That isn’t proof enough for you?
mdd:
“hazal said that the Torah protects and bittul Torah can bring on tzaros. We can not always know why things happen, but Chazal and later Gedolim would sometimes tie certain tzaros to certain aveiros.”
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