Torah is greater than everything and includes everything. It is greater even than prophesy!
Rebbe Nachman teaches: Torah is greater than everything and includes everything. It is greater even than prophesy (Tzaddik #421).
Torah study is a prerequisite to attaining fear of sin. However, the fear of sin must itself precede analytical study (The Aleph Bet-Book, Limud A:47).
Diligent study rises above the fulfillment of all the mitzvot (The Aleph Bet-Book, Limud A:33).
God Himself studies Torah every day. With Torah study, you will merit the World to Come!
Rebbe Nachman was lecturing someone about Torah study. He said: Why don’t you study? What have you to lose? God Himself studies Torah every day. With Torah study, you will merit the World to Come! (Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom #17; see Avodah Zarah 3b).
Worldly pity (which people feel for those deprived of worldly things) is obvious. Everyone sees the pity which people have for those who are hungry or thirsty or in serious trouble. They know how people react to a person without clothing or shoes.
Yet, pity for the deprived in the World to Come is a much greater pity. If a person lacks clothing in this world others can take up a collection and buy it for him. Such pity is impossible in the World to Come. There, the only clothing one needs is Torah and mitzvot. Happy is he who is worthy of “eating” many chapters of Mishnah, “drinking” verses of the Psalms and “clothing” himself with some mitzvot (Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom #23).
There, the only clothing one needs is Torah and mitzvoth!
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Know! there are chambers of Torah. Whoever is privileged to enter these chambers and discover original Torah insights, will find these chambers to be endless. While there he will be able to accumulate magnificent treasures. Fortunate is he! (Likutey Moharan I, 245).
Torah study brings peace (The Aleph Bet-Book, Limud A:75).
(taken from the book Crossing the Narrow Bridge: A Practical Guide to Rebbe Nachman’s Teachings; chapter 7 – Torah Study, pp. 97-98)
