In a special article, Mohorosh Z’L explains why it is especially important in the month of Kislev, which now enters at a good time, to increase the study of oral Torah and especially the study of Gemara – Babylonian Talmud, a little of everything, blessed is he who strengthens himself right now and adds to the study of Babylonian Talmud that will protect all of Israel!
The holiday of Hanukkah is called the Festival of Lights, because then the stored light that will be revealed in the revelation of the Moshiach! which our holy sages said (Hagiga 12:) A light that the Holy One, blessed be He, created on first day, stood and was stored away for the righteous for the future to come, and this light is now stored away in the Gemara, and the one who lights thirty-six candles and the 56 tractates that we have and the 36 hours that the hidden light shone on the first man and therefore Hanukkah is the holiday of the Oral Torah which is the faith of the Sages, and this the Greeks wanted to abolish from the people of Israel, therefore during the days of Hanukkah it is commanded to increase the study of the Torah by heart, and to accept himself received a return to the right to finish all 36 tractates during the year, and here Rabeinu Nachman said: (Likutei Maharan part 2, paragraph 17): Kislev keep’s hidden (Exodus 13): ו'ירא הוי"ה כ'י ס'ר ל'ראות" and our holy sages speaks about it (Shemot Rabbah Parsha 11, paragraph 27): The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe, you put your affairs aside and went to see the sorrow of Israel, and you followed the custom of brothers, I put the superiors And the underlings, and I will speak with you, this is the scripture: "And the Lord saw that he ceased to see", the Holy One, blessed be He, saw in Moshe who ceased from his business to see their suffering, therefore God called to him from the bush.
(Eicha 13): "He sat me down in the darkness like an eternity" said Rabbi Jeremiah, this is the Babylonian Talmud. And it is given in the name of the righteous when troubles and sufferings and darkness pass over the person, the main advice is to flee to the Gemara, which is Talmud in Babylon, and therefore the righteous strengthen and encourage and make the souls of Israel happy that in everything that happens to them they should flee to the Talmud in Babylon, that is, to the Gemara, I was blessed by the Kollel Yavniel precisely at these times that are closed inclusive Due to a lack of budget and poverty and pressures multiplying in every corner and in every place, they were given the opportunity to receive a month of Kislev in this month, to add to the study of Gemara, and sixty students were awarded who completed five hundred pages of Gemara in this month, which is a miracle upon a miracle how in such a far away place in such a remote corner Out of poverty and oppression, they will have the privilege of studying so many pages of the Gemara, and Rabeinu Nachman said (Likutei Maharani, part 1, paragraph 2): As for the righteous who are called by the test of Moshe, and that which the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses, you put your business aside and went to see the sorrow of Israel And you followed a fraternal custom in them, I put the upper ones and the lower ones and I will talk with you! Mohorosh Z’L. Said: May this thing be fulfilled in him, that he has in his heart all the days of his life to see the happiness of my students, who includes and practices in them a fraternal custom and strengthens them and encourages them and makes them happy, and helps him in what he can, by the Holy One, blessed be He, who entitles him to learn a new book each time, That I will put the upper and lower ones and talk to you , blessed us and what good is our future to come!
