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Shavuot 

Collections: Rabbi Schachter: Shavuos

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What are the two aspects of the mitzvah of learning torah? Are women obligated in both aspects? Why is talmud bavli not on all of mishnayot? If one cannot fulfill a mitvah, is there a kiyum, if one learns its laws? Can a sefardic woman recite a blessing on a non-obligated mitzvah such as lulav? How to understand the obligation of learning a third in mikra, mishna, and talmud. Are women obligated to recite eizehu makoman? Why on shabbos yom tov is be'ahava repeated twice? Why one is not exempted from fulfilling a mitzvah, even if he is learning torah. If one desires to learn, but ones parents want one to go to college, what should one do? The nature of perkei avos. Learning not le'shma, osek im hatzibur not le'shma.