Let's look for the translated Talmud in Kim Jong Un's house

Did you know that in South Korea there are over 50 million civilians and you will find a Korean-translated Talmud in every home? It turns out that the neighbors far from the East admire Jewish wisdom as it emerges from the pages of the Talmud. Congratulations on the commencement of the project

With the book (Photo: ShutterStock)

Stack of books (Photo: ShutterStock)

This coming Saturday, Z. Tevet, is a worldwide holiday. You won't find it great on your printed calendars, nor on your smartphones, but countless Jews will celebrate the end of the daily page together on the same day: a seven-and-a-half-year (!) Daily one-page study of the Babylonian Talmud every day, to the support of all 2711 pages. Think for a moment of this enormous commitment: No matter if you are on vacation or flight, on weekdays or Saturdays, on holiday or fasting day, in the rain or on a hot summer day - you have to finish every single day.

Persistence and self-discipline are at the heart of this matter. And just as the same mountaineer was asked why he was climbing, and answered - "Because there is the mountain," so the daily page learners will answer the question of why to persevere in this difficult task - "because it is the study of the true Torah, to be laborers in the Torah." Like the marathon, effort is the name of the game. And as soon as you finish it all starts again from the beginning.

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Internet revolution

Thus, Rabbi Meir Shapira, founder of the daily page, said in 1923: "If every single house on every site and site learns the same Gemara page on that day, do you have a more tangible expression of the supreme union between Kodesh Brich He, Oriya and Israel?" (Blessed is the Torah and the people of Israel)

How Many Daily Page Learners Are There in the World Today? This question can no longer be answered because, apart from the many learners in organized groups in synagogues or in private homes, you can learn from the Internet anywhere on earth. This possibility brought about a dramatic revolution in Torah study, a significant revolution perhaps even more so than the Internet itself.

With the end of the current cycle of the daily page in Masked Nida and the opening of the next cycle in Maskat Brachot, it is time to give a place of honor to this great project in Walla! Judaism. How do you do that? Drop one pearl each week from the plethora of pearls learned in the seven pages of the past week. It could be a wise gem of one of the Talmudic scholars, a halakhic ruling with a statement, or just a story: Enjoy!

Professor Tzachi Grossman is a pediatrician and secretary general of the Israeli Association of Pediatrics