What is Real Learning? - R. Tomer Zino - TorahAnytime.com

Learning means learning means that he has to be engaged. There's some people who could come. I know people like this. They come, they just need, they just want to check the box, you know. They come, okay, Rabbi, what are we saying today? Okay. Uh, says, close it. I did my 10 minutes, Rabbi. I clocked in, I clocked out. Is that enough? >> So, you're right. He did learn. He his mitzah does count. But he's not engaged. You know what engaged means? A person has to feel like I learned like wow I was I was involved you know and that's hard to do by yourself sometimes you know some people say yeah I do learn I learn by myself I have my art scroll mim I have my I have my pocket Mishna and I learn I few finish a few pages every day that's wonderful that's beautiful but ideally when a person wants to learn he has to get engaged he has to feel like wow I was really interested I was really my my my brain was working, you know, that that was very thoughtprovoking questions. Usually, you need a rabbi, someone higher than you to learn with. And the topic has to be a topic that you connect to very much. If you're learning is very dry for you, it's important. Don't get me wrong. You have to learn learn, but you also have to learn what what speaks to your heart. You have to learn something that engages you and makes you excited about learning. When a person learns like that, he's going to be excited about learning. A guy who just does it to check the box, you know what's going to happen? There's going to be one day he's not in the mood. There's going to be one day where he has a crazy schedule. What's going to push him to do it? I'm not really in the mood. Okay, I'll read it. He reads every other word. He closes it after 2 minutes and I call it a day. He goes to puts his kids to sleep and he falls asleep with his kids. What's going to push him to go downstairs and and do that learning he knows he's supposed to do. When he's engaged and he's excited and he has a rabbi who's waiting for him or he has a person to learn with and he gets excited, he has a fire of Torah burning inside of him. So then he's going to be motivated to go through all those hardships and learn Torah no matter what, you know. And that Torah that he learns with that motivation, it's going to go deeper inside of him. A guy who just does it to check the box, he he reads a few things, 20 minutes he reads this, 20 minutes he reads that, but it's just very shallow, very uh from the mouth outwards, it's not going to really change him. It's not going to give him that it's supposed to be that, you know. So that's when I say learning, it means he it doesn't have to be for two hours. It just has to be real learning. has to be really engaged. Something that lights him on fire, you know?