Almost 400 years later, we still feel the devastating effects of the false Mashiach whose actions rocked the world
“I want to be a great chacham, a Rav who teaches Torah to many people,” I told Ima today.
She wanted to know where I got that idea from. “It’s a wonderful idea,” she hurried to reassure me. “But what made you think of it now?”
I know why she was wondering that. Because I’m six years old and I’m usually more interested in playing with my friends than learning. But in cheder today, my friend Moshe was telling us about a bochur named Shabtai Tzvi who has just become a chacham — and he is only 20 years old! That made me think it would be very special to become a chacham too.
I’m going to learn really well and get semichah as young as I can — maybe not when I’m 20, like Shabtai Tzvi, but at least when I’m 30…
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