Q. See question above. How about when one learns Torah. Is it every word one says or thinks or maybe even letters a separate mtzvah that requires intention?
A. Birchas Shmuel, (Kiddushin, 27) questions the known Gaon of Vilna affirmation that the mitzvah to learn Torah has no minimum by drawing an analogy to the mitzvah to wear tzitzis. And explains that as one would not describe the mitzvah of tzitzis as “without a minimum,” but rather an entirely new and complete mitzvah is generated with the arrival of each new moment, the same should be true of the mitzvah to study Torah.
Horav Boruch Ber Zt’l, further explains that in reality no new and separate obligation to learn is generated each moment; rather, there is just one mitzvah and it is to constantly learn Torah.
As mentioned in last question, once intention was established when reciting the brocho for the Torah, it maintains that intention continuously.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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