Those who sit and study Torah - who went out to do sports

The idea was born while running a training with Rafi, I told him: Listen, I think to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the SHS and the sixty mile run. The two initiated a sporting event where they went sixty miles of running and cycling concurrently with 60 trumpets, every 10 km. From completion. Here is their fascinating story

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Hundreds of Shas graduations have been held all over the world in the last few months. Hundreds of thousands of students have completed sixty tractations in the Gemara and celebrated the moment with endings of various types. The two initiated a sporting event in which sixty miles of running and cycling went through, at the same time as the end of the sixty tractations, so that every ten miles there was an end to one order of the Shas.

"The idea was born while running a training session with Rafi," Biton said. "I told Rafi:" Listen, I'm celebrating my sixtieth birthday and I'm thinking of celebrating my birthday at the end of Shas and also running sixty miles. " Raffi was the one who made the connection. "Initially, the event was planned for a small number of people, but interest grew, and in the event that took place about two weeks ago, dozens of people who came to study and exercise.

The idea for this particular event was born as stated during a training run, but the lives of both entrepreneurs involve the Torah with sports. "I feel that there is no contradiction between Torah study and sports, and not only is there no contradiction, but there is a consensus between the two because I believe there is no Torah study without a healthy body," Patrick says. "Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch says that the Jewish worker of God is not only from the books, but Torah and work. The combination is what creates the Torah Jew and what we add is that it requires Torah, work and sports," adds Dr. Kirschenbaum, who emphasizes that the importance of sports can already be seen Talmudic sages in the Gemara: "In the first tract that we began to study now, there are several finals that speak of health. We believe that this is not just another generation of the Gemara, but part of what makes us Jewish workers properly."

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In their vision, Kirschenbaum and Biton see the combination of Torah and sports as such to suit yeshiva boys on the one hand and athletes on the other. "It's a call to those who study Torah who went out to do sports to have more power to learn, and a call to those who run and do sports but haven't found the Gemara," says Dr. Kirschenbaum, and Biton says that his experience in sports can be addictive and the need to learn brings man to grips with The healthy addiction to sport and empowering it: “Whoever enters the sport, becomes addicted. It is very difficult to stop and concentrate on something else when it comes time for the sport, but the charge to stop and learn reminds you not to forget the spirit as well. We want to influence people who do sports to see that other things related to spirit can be done. Torah study or any other study. "

The vision leads the two to dream of future projects that will incorporate sports and spirit. From other sports events that will be taught within the Gemara pages, from a club entirely devoted to an integrated running course to the completion of another book such as the table edited with sports, the sky is the limit. Biton, who has run a number of marathons around the world, dreams of importing the country to the morning prayers and learning the daily page that opens the New York Marathon: "One of the most beautiful places besides Jerusalem where I ran this is New York City. "It's a huge tent where there is a morning and a daily page even before they start the marathon. I wish there was such an organized thing in the country."

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Despite the great physical difficulty of training, the two speakers agree that studying the Gemara and adopting the brain is still a bigger challenge. "I think the Gemara is more difficult," Kirschenbaum says. "When I studied for rabbinic exams, it wasn't easy. It was harder than a marathon, maybe closer to Iron Man. Real effort. I think the Torah is still in first place." Biton also says that the learning experience and the brain adoption wins the body's adoption at a technical level: , Consult with companies and more, while training has a beginning and an end even if it is difficult. "