Q: Can Jews Learn Torah on December 25th?

does the of not studying on Torah not studying Torah during Christmas still appli today or is it just for certain specific communities okay so let me give a little background for some people um there is a sect within within uh I think I believe today it's mainly that at some point their told them that not to study t on the day of t for theim on their Christmas day uh not to study T during that day but rather uh you know because there is a from there decided there's a lot of tum in the world a lot of demons in the world resulting from all the sins that they're making during that Idol worshiping day and you don't want to give the strength of the Torah to these to these uh you know these other side beings if you will but this particular so so so these parts of again today I believe it's only kabad uh every year they make it a uh a thing where on their the 24th of December I think it is that uh they don't study T during that night uh they don't study during the night and they do other things like play chess and uh and and the likes um and know so this is like a the big sages of of of of these that would be the one day of year that they would actually you know do things that perhaps they didn't do the whole year uh like play chess and other things like that now this particular Minh this custom was not accepted was not accepted among the majority of Cl is and actually quite the opposite quite the opposite in fact quite the opposite where you should learn even more Torah on this day because of all of the impurity that's being added to the world from this idolatry we in essence have to add more Purity in the world more Kusa in the world to fight it uh that's why the uh he actually had had a uh a yesid where he had two shifts of Torah Learners where each one would learn 12 hours and when they completed the other one would continue to make sure that there is Torah being learned 24 hours a day all year round all year round so the uh the minhag of not learning on this uh this Idol worshiping day was not accepted not back then and not today even more so not today of not learning T you not only should learn tah on this day but you should actually learn extra tah uh and in fact many rebuked rebuked the people that did not learn tah on this day because they saw that people not learning tah ended up making a lot of mistakes during this day making making many sins on this day and it's a very very big mistake uh so again we're not going against their that originally instituted at their time we don't believe even that they uh planned on doing it permanently and we thought it was maybe for the time but either way this was not for all of Cl is but rather for specific communities at that time and it was rejected back then and even more so today uh to for for the rest of Cl completely rejected uh we need to learn t as the Tora itself says to us and there's a whole debate in between shim and about how much you have to learn and the uh they they bring verses that you have to learn day and night all day all night and then bring another verse says if not for my Covenant meaning learning toah day and night if there isn't somebody learning toah at some point every single second of the day Hashem at that point will destroy the world without the flood without explosion just simply the world will cease to exist all the atoms will stop spinning and pretty much everything will just simply disappear Soom that will stop learning because itself tells us that if would stop learning TM will destroy the world instantly instantly with no warning so this is also one of the biggest reason the itself goes and rebukes anyone that follows this custom today especially with those no longer being in the world anymore it's a uh it's a very big rebuke because we need more and more Torah today more than ever uh more than ever so I uh I applaud you for asking the question and I highly highly recommend everybody to learn extra on that day uh because there's so much impurity added to the world that we have to uh we have to uh Fight It The we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a zul disrespect to the Torah and could lead to CH Hashem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew