Birkot HaTorah

There's a difference in the way that we learn those two things.

Okay? Ba'Torah Shebichtav mebarichim et birkat haTorah b'kriyata.

When we are learning Torah Shebichtav, we make Birkat HaTorah on the reading.

Afilu ka'asher lo yada maik amar.

Even if we don't understand exactly what we're reading, right? We're on page two oh two it says at the top.

Even if a person doesn't understand what they're physically reading, on Torah Shebichtav we make a berakha on reading the words.

Akh be'limud Torah Shebaal Peh, be'im lo yada maik amar, einu yachol levarekh birkat haTorah.

When it comes to Torah Shebaal Peh, if I don't know, if I don't understand what I'm reading, I cannot make a berakha on the Torah that I'm learning.

And that might be good, but the problem is in the morning, for sure you have a problem.

You didn't say Birkat HaTorah yet.

And until you say Birkat HaTorah, y- you're really not supposed to say, you know, any pesukim, and therefore, he says over here, uh, ulam lahalacha yoter nakod shelo lomar pesukim kieman sheadyan lo beirech Birkat HaTorah.

Now, we've discussed the last case of the day, and that is if God forbid somebody, let's say, has a cast on his hand or bandages, and then Halacha says, "Fine, you only wash the other hand." The, it's not, it's not a package deal that if you can't get the tamid for both hands, then you don't deal with the other one.

Now, obviously, you cannot wash one hand alternately.

There's something I want to introduce right at the outset, and it is really one of the most remarkable parts of Judaism, and that is what is known as the blessing on the Torah.

In Hebrew, that is called Birkat HaTorah.

Now, you may be familiar with this from attending a, a bar mitzvah and seeing some young, uh, 12-year-old, uh, wrestle their way, uh, through this blessing.

That is not the blessing that we are going to talk about, although there is some overlap.

There is a daily blessing that we recite on the Torah, and that is called Birkat HaTorah, and it is recited every single morning, and it is so beautiful and profound that it is worth reading together.

Now, just to explain and to take a moment, because sometimes these things are lost on us, it, it, it's so moving and beautiful that we make a blessing before we study Torah.

There is no other book that we are doing where you kind of make an introductory blessing before you read.

This is a very important blessing.