more yeshivism

Yeshivist elul vort:

"We explain as follows. Tosfos כתובות ק”ד quotes the Medrash that דברי תורה נכנס לתוך גופו that torah words get swallowed into our physical bodies. That means that torah talk which is the word of Hashem as Chazal say in קידושין ל: כה דברי כאש נאום ה is literally flowing through our bloodstreams and becomes part and parcel of our bones and veins. There’s no greater connection than that. " 

Tosfos in kesubos actually says

לא נהניתי אפילו באצבע קטנה: דאמרינן במדרש עד שאדם מתפלל שיכנס תורה לתוך גופו יתפלל שלא יכנסו מעדנים לתוך גופו ומייתי הא עובדא דרבי:

I didn't enjoy it even with a little finger: they say in the midrash that a person prays that the Torah will enter his body, he prays that delicacies will not enter his body, and Miiti Ha Ovada Darbi.

He prays that it will enter his body. You need prayer. It doesn't just enter you cause you learned in yeshiva. It requires another mitzvah to help it. And why would you pray that it enters your body? Presumably it's so that it will bring you to do mitzvos. Why else do you need it there? It's intellectual. Why would you need it to be anywhere but your head?

The Gemara in Kiddushin says

תָּנָא דְּבֵי רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל: בְּנִי אִם פָּגַע בְּךָ מְנֻוּוֹל זֶה – מׇשְׁכֵהוּ לְבֵית הַמִּדְרָשׁ. אִם אֶבֶן הוּא – נִימּוֹחַ, וְאִם בַּרְזֶל הוּא – מִתְפּוֹצֵץ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״הֲלוֹא כֹה דְבָרִי כָּאֵשׁ נְאֻם ה׳ וּכְפַטִּישׁ יְפֹצֵץ סָלַע״. אִם אֶבֶן הוּא – נִימּוֹחַ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״הוֹי כׇּל צָמֵא לְכוּ לַמַּיִם״ וְאוֹמֵר: ״אֲבָנִים שָׁחֲקוּ מַיִם״.

A Sage from the school of Rabbi Yishmael taught: My son, if this wretched one, the evil inclination, encounters you, pull it into the study hall, i.e., go and study Torah. If it is a stone it will melt, and if it is iron it will break, as it is stated with regard to the Torah: “Is not My word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29). Just as a stone shatters a hammer, so too one can overcome his evil inclination, which is as strong as iron, through Torah study. With regard to the second part of the statement: If it is a stone it will melt, this is as it is stated with regard to the Torah: “Ho, everyone who thirsts, come for water” (Isaiah 55:1), and it states: “The water wears the stones” (Job 14:19), indicating that water is stronger than stone.

Where does it say here that the Torah literally flows in your bloodstream? It just says the Torah breaks up the yetzer hara.

This speech reminds me of the Eucharist. What's that:

Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: evcharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving')^[1] is the name that Catholics give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass.^[2]