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# A passing mitzvah. For example, when faced with the choice of performing a mitzvah that may be done only within the next five minutes versus one that may be done over the next hour, we are to perform the mitzvah that applies immediately and move on the next.<ref>Kiddushin 29b, Berachot 27a</ref> | # A passing mitzvah. For example, when faced with the choice of performing a mitzvah that may be done only within the next five minutes versus one that may be done over the next hour, we are to perform the mitzvah that applies immediately and move on the next.<ref>Kiddushin 29b, Berachot 27a</ref> | ||
==Learning Torah and Other Mitzvot== | ==Learning Torah and Other Mitzvot== | ||
# While Torah is one of the most important mitzvot<reF>Mishna Peah 1:1</ref> if it comes into conflict with a mitzvah that only you can do, the mitzvah takes precedence.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 9b, Rambam (Talmud Torah 3:4)</ref> One explanation for this halacha is that a person's learning should lead up to fulfilling the mitzvot and if a person abandons fulfilling mitzvot in order to learn Torah, it indicates that one's learning isn't done in order to fulfill the mitzvot.<Ref>Rabbenu Yonah (Brachot 9b at the top)</ref> | # While [[learning Torah]] is one of the most important mitzvot<reF>Mishna Peah 1:1</ref> if it comes into conflict with a mitzvah that only you can do, the mitzvah takes precedence.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 9b, Rambam (Talmud Torah 3:4)</ref> | ||
# In a general sense, learning Torah is more important than [[Kibbud Av VeEm]].<Ref>Rambam (Mamrim 6:13)</ref> | ## One explanation for this halacha is that a person's learning should lead up to fulfilling the mitzvot and if a person abandons fulfilling mitzvot in order to learn Torah, it indicates that one's learning isn't done in order to fulfill the mitzvot.<Ref>Rabbenu Yonah (Brachot 9b at the top)</ref> | ||
## Another explanation for this is that learning Torah is all encompassing and really one should learn all of the time. If one wouldn't interrupt learning in order to do other mitzvot, one would never get a chance to do any mitzvot which Hashem commanded.<ref>Chida in Chaim Shaal 1:71:2, Gra in Sadeh Eliyahu Peah 1:1</ref> | |||
# In a general sense, learning Torah is more important than [[Kibbud Av VeEm]].<Ref>Gemara Megillah 16b, Rambam (Mamrim 6:13)</ref> | |||
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