Reply To: Learning Torah tonight

I do get a little upset when people follow a “minhag” as if it were m’ikar haDin, when the reason for the minhag was a very specific, time-bound one, which doesn’t apply at all, and the minahg l’chatchilah was never something that we should be doing, i.e., ceasing learning Torah for one night, except for the direst reasons. It made sense for the sake of pikuach nefesh AT THAT TIME, but that is surely not the case in this country, and I fail to understand why some people still do that, when our Torah learning is what keeps us alive. If we were in a similar situation today ch”v, I would feel differently.