Getting It Right – The Ingredients for Proper Understanding

Torah in the abstract versus Torah interacting with the reality of the world as it exists. The need for insight and savvy. Analysis of what we should learn from an ant. Importance of amassing a breadth of Torah knowledge before engaging in deep analysis. An apparent contradiction in the value of showing mercy. Analysis of Moonbaz HaMelech’s elaborating upon the many facets of his tsedakah. The impossibility of understanding chumash without Torah she-be-al peh.

Citations: Aside from the commentaries on Mishlei, this shiur references the gemaras Bava Basra 11a, and Shabbos 31a.