I would like to learn Torah, but I find it is hard to do so. You can't depend on doing it in a synogogue because of the fact that most synagogues are there for other reasons. Same problem with yeshivas. They are usually set up for reasons other than being a place where anyone can walk in and start learning Torah.
So for Joe Public to learn Torah it means in a practical sense to go out and buy the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud and the Midrashim and bring them home and set aside a certain place in his home to plow through them, page by page word by word. Same with Isaac Luria's stuff.
I mean even at the very best if you have a Lithuanian yeshiva in your neighborhood that does not mean they are open for the public. Most yeshivas tend to be insane asylums that are not learning Torah at all, but using the name yeshiva to advance some charismatic lunatic that they worship as a deity.
I SHOULD MENTION:
This plowing through Talmud approach probably needs some kind of introduction like the basic Musar books or Shimshon Refael Hirsh's Horev.
So for Joe Public to learn Torah it means in a practical sense to go out and buy the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud and the Midrashim and bring them home and set aside a certain place in his home to plow through them, page by page word by word. Same with Isaac Luria's stuff.
I mean even at the very best if you have a Lithuanian yeshiva in your neighborhood that does not mean they are open for the public. Most yeshivas tend to be insane asylums that are not learning Torah at all, but using the name yeshiva to advance some charismatic lunatic that they worship as a deity.
I SHOULD MENTION:
This plowing through Talmud approach probably needs some kind of introduction like the basic Musar books or Shimshon Refael Hirsh's Horev.
