{"id":1109,"date":"2014-09-22T05:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T05:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2014-10-12T05:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T05:10:49","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%91-date-27-elul-5774-92214-chagigah14-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1 Date: 27 Elul, 5774 (9\/22\/14) \u2013 Chagigah#14 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cut It Down<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[14a top] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Nachman bar Yitzchak<\/span>: The verse of &#8220;those who were cut down&#8221; is written as a blessing. It refers to Torah scholars who cut down on their own sleep and learn words of Torah instead. Hashem will reveal secret matters to them (as a reward for their sacrifice) in the world to come, as it says, &#8220;their revealed secrets will be like a pouring river.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>T&#8217;s Lesson<\/b><\/span>: Just as these great sages are Mesiras Nefesh (over-exerting themselves) at a loss to their own sleep to learn Torah, so too we should cut back on some of our own &#8220;needs&#8221; as well for Torah. Try to think of and implement at least one thing we could cut back on daily this year to make more room for Torah (ie: less tv watching, going to movies, etc).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cut It Down [14a top] R\u2019 Nachman bar Yitzchak: The verse of &#8220;those who were cut down&#8221; is written as a blessing. It refers to Torah scholars who cut down on their own sleep and learn words of Torah instead. Hashem will reveal secret matters to them (as a reward &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-chagigah","category-l4l-by-tani","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}