Monday, May 13, 2013
The 48 Ways to Acquire Torah: Listening and adding to on'es Knowledge
9:39 PM | 
Posted by
Rabbi Chaim Coffman |
The next of the 48 ways to acquire Torah is listening and adding to one's knowledge. When we listen to others, we have the ability to increase our own knowledge, all the more so when we listen to the wisdom of our Torah scholars.
When we listen, we absorb the idea and internalize it to make it our reality. We look at it from many different angles until we understand it clearly.
When we learn something new, we have the ability to add on to our previous knowledge. We may think that new things we learn have no connection to what we know previously. This is a mistake because knowledge never goes to waste.
When we learn Torah, whatever we learn is a building block for something else. This means that I could learn something new that sheds light onto something I have already learned and put it in a new perspective that wasn't thought of previously.
Haven't we learned something or heard a new idea that shed light onto something we learned many years ago? This is the power of Torah that shows that everything is interconnected, it is just a matter of time until we find the missing parts and put them together.
When we listen, we have to open our hearts to be able to hear. This means that when we hear something new, we should not automatically reject it out of hand. We should thoroughly analyze it to see if it is true and what I can gain from it.
We are quick to dismiss something that we haven't heard of. Maybe it's true but since a person hasn't heard of it before, they will be reluctant to implement its teaching until it has been proven. The most important thing here is to be open to listen, that way we can increase our knowledge and help ourselves reach our true potential!
When we listen, we absorb the idea and internalize it to make it our reality. We look at it from many different angles until we understand it clearly.
When we learn something new, we have the ability to add on to our previous knowledge. We may think that new things we learn have no connection to what we know previously. This is a mistake because knowledge never goes to waste.
When we learn Torah, whatever we learn is a building block for something else. This means that I could learn something new that sheds light onto something I have already learned and put it in a new perspective that wasn't thought of previously.
Haven't we learned something or heard a new idea that shed light onto something we learned many years ago? This is the power of Torah that shows that everything is interconnected, it is just a matter of time until we find the missing parts and put them together.
When we listen, we have to open our hearts to be able to hear. This means that when we hear something new, we should not automatically reject it out of hand. We should thoroughly analyze it to see if it is true and what I can gain from it.
We are quick to dismiss something that we haven't heard of. Maybe it's true but since a person hasn't heard of it before, they will be reluctant to implement its teaching until it has been proven. The most important thing here is to be open to listen, that way we can increase our knowledge and help ourselves reach our true potential!
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