And it's called the Beit Midrash . And Beit Midrash means the house of searching. And there are Beit Midrashes all over the world, and they're filled with books, lined with books like a library.
That's because you might have-- in my Beit Midrash , there's 50 people. There's a Beit Midrash that has thousands of people in one big room. Everybody's sitting like we're sitting right now, face to face.
Yeah, it's a great question. In one Beit Midrash that I studied in, there was a quote, "all is fair in love and havruta." Because it can get really intense, and especially on matters that are deep and core to whether it's your spiritual identity, or an idea that you care passionately about, or a project you're working on, of course,
And Beit Midrash means the house of searching. And there are Beit Midrashes all over the world, and they're filled with books, lined with books like a library. But unlike a library, they're very loud.
It's a room about half the size of this room. And it's called the Beit Midrash . And Beit Midrash means the house of searching.
But unlike a library, they're very loud. You walk in the Beit Midrash , and there's this roar of speech, and hand motions, and gesticulating, and people standing up, and sitting down, and pacing around, and not studying in a quiet, focused way, but arguing, and debating, and conversing.
But what I think a key takeaway is the power of havruta, friendship, and the social nature of learning. So I mentioned walking into a Beit Midrash , and it's loud and it's buzzing. That's because you might have-- in my Beit Midrash , there's 50 people.
or some kind of lifesaving necessity for a village. It's a classic Beit Midrash move where you move your thumb.
So I mentioned walking into a Beit Midrash , and it's loud and it's buzzing. That's because you might have-- in my Beit Midrash , there's 50 people. There's a Beit Midrash that has thousands of people in one big room.
or some kind of lifesaving necessity for a village. We're going to turn this into a Beit Midrash , a house of study.
It's thousands of pages of questions-- questions on the text, questions of one another, questions on a question. There's a classic joke that there's a boy who goes to learn the Beit Midrash for school. And he comes home.
The Talmud is not really a book, it's more of a conversation, thousands of years old, still running today. And rabbis-- people like me, who go to yeshiva, to go to a Beit Midrash to study and to search, we spend a lot, a lot of hours studying this book.
It's kind of a Rip Van Winkle story. And he fell asleep, and 70 years later, he wakes up, and he goes to the Beit Midrash , to the house of study. And he sees that everyone is quoting his wisdom, and he feels very good about himself.