
Maran HaRav Lando delivered encouraging words on the occasion of the holiday of Hanukkah to hundreds of students from Yeshivah Or Yisrael in Petah Tikva.
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""During the days of Hanukkah, there is a mitzvah of lighting candles, there is a mitzvah of praise, there is a reading of the Torah, but there is a mitzvah that is always, always, always to study - there is no time exempt from studying, and on Hanukkah even more so, because they decreed that your Torah should be forgotten, always to be immersed in study, not only to study but to be immersed in study, immersed in study, to hear what you are taught, to be immersed in it, to be persistent in it, immersed in study all the time, except for one day a year - Tisha B'Av, which will soon be abolished in our days," said the Rosh Yeshiva.

Maran HaGar"d Lando at Yeshiva Or Yisrael. Photo: Chaim Grossman
""To study and study, there is no time that is exempt from studying, to be immersed, to be persistent. The rest of the things are vanity, and now they want to remove the laws of your will, people here want to abolish studying, persecute us, and we hope with God's help that everything will be like a dream that will fly away, like a cloud of ashes, everything will flourish, and soon we will just study and study and be engaged in studying.".
""Be immersed in learning and listen to what the rabbis teach you and guide you, and know that this is the only happiness. There is nothing else in the world. Blessed are we, how good is our lot to study Torah. May we study in order until the coming of our righteous Messiah soon in our days. Amen and Amen.".