tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519658054213982213.post481947364092194921..comments2023-09-10T08:55:28.256-04:00Comments on Nishma-Parshah: Naaseh v'Nishma 2 - The D'var TorahNishmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237299801109329429noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519658054213982213.post-36671102191784537442014-06-02T00:23:10.318-04:002014-06-02T00:23:10.318-04:00In my shiur Kabbalat HaTorah, Part 2, on Koshertub...In my shiur Kabbalat HaTorah, Part 2, on Koshertube at http://koshertube.com/videos/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=4&task=videodirectlink&id=18087 <br />I connect the idea of Na'aseh v'Nishma with the gemara in Shabbat about the nation being force to accept through a mountain being place over them and the famous midrash that God asked the other nations first about whether they wanted the Torah. My conclusion was that a correct full acceptance of Torah needed an understanding that could only come after performance -- so Na'aseh v'Nishma was all the nation could say until they could give such a full acceptance after performance which came with Purim. Nishma was indeed that process of existential understanding -- albeit I believe it was also cognitive and cerebral as well.<br /><br />Rabbi Ben HechtRabbi Ben Hechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519658054213982213.post-25869841685841640352014-01-14T13:56:50.222-05:002014-01-14T13:56:50.222-05:00RBH:
But until R' Chaim Volozhiner, Torah lis...RBH:<br /><br />But until R' Chaim Volozhiner, Torah lishmah did not mean "Torah WITHOUT any pragmatic ramification". The tannaim argue whether it's for the sake of knowing what to do, or for the sake of teaching. But in any case, until the Lithuanian Yeshiva Movement, Torah was not to be learned simply to gain knowledge in the abstract by men either.<br /><br />To offer my own alternative understanding of "Nishma": I would go with "internalize", as in "Shema Yisrael". Saying "na'aseh venishma" was an acknowledgement that we don't really understand what the Torah is talking about until we actually try the mitzvah, and we aren't molded by it until then either. And so there is a learning that comes from performance that goes beyond that from study.micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.com