Wise Fridays: Just Four Paragraphs a Day

“If a man learns two paragraphs of the law in the morning and two in the evening and is engaged in his work all day, it is considered as though he had fulfilled the Torah in its entirety.”

Tanhuma Beshallakh #20

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