Tanya: Chapter 5

Recently I overheard my wife, who is a devoted student of Rabbi Chaim Brovender on his Web Yeshiva, studying with Rabbi Brovender a piece of Talmud dealing with the issue of whether or not an elephant can be used as one side of a Sukkah. In my ignorance, and arrogance, I thought "What a silly idea. How can two adults spend so much time learning something so ridiculous." Little did I know or understand the holiness of what they were doing - until I heard this talk by Rabbi Krasnianski. In it he addresses studying Torah for its own sake and uses the analogy of G-d as our marriage partner, someone we love, and someone about whom we want to know as much as possible. Now I understand that it does not matter, at all, if an elephant was, is, or ever will be used as a side of a Sukkah. May many blessings spread over my wife, Rabbi Brovender and Rabbi Krasnianski.