In Part One, we discussed how many people can “slip through the cracks,” and not fulfill their potential in Torah. Unless someone is personally, intellectually engaged, whether he is a Yeshiva bochur, Baal Teshuvah, or anyone else, he will not achieve the closeness to Torah that he is capable of. The Torah originally foresaw the... Read more »
Chazal tell us (Medrash Rabah Vayikra 2:1) that of the thousand students who enter to learn Mikra, 100 enter to learn Mishnah, and of those 100, only 10 enter to learn Gemara, and of those only one becomes the outstanding scholar. But the Rambam teaches that Talmud is the crown of Jewish learning. Does that mean that only 1% of Jewish people can