Word.ws English Dictionary

bittul Torah

bittul Torah noun: neglect of Torah study.

Noun

bittul Torah (uncountable)

  1. Neglect of Torah study.
    • Less posting, more Tehillim, more davening, more learning. By learning, I mean learning Torah, not learning Santayana. And, not learning foreign languages. Unless you have some Torah purpose in mind. Do you perhaps attend a Yeshiva where the Rosh Yeshivah says his shiurim in Ladino, and you had to...1997 December 7, R, “Ladino”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
    • Do you really think being on the internet is bittul Torah? Quite a lot of the activity on this newsgroup is learning or teaching Torah. makes your conscience easier if you think that!2002 February 23, Henry Goodman, “High Court Accepts Reform, Conservative Conversions”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)

Examples of bittul Torah in a sentence

  • If he has searched and found that he has done nothing wrong with the limb that hurts, he should attribute his pain to bittul Torah.2009, Hayyim ben Isaac Volozhiner, Nefesh HaChaim:
  • "Bittul Torah," a phrase used to describe anything that gets in the way of studying, is a concept Hasidic boys are lectured about from a young age.2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 60:

Questions about bittul Torah

What does bittul Torah mean?
Bittul Torah means neglect of Torah study.
How do you use bittul Torah in a sentence?
If he has searched and found that he has done nothing wrong with the limb that hurts, he should attribute his pain to bittul Torah.
What part of speech is bittul Torah?
Bittul Torah is a noun.

Words near bittul Torah in the dictionary

  1. bittorrents
  2. bittors
  3. bittour
  4. bittours
  5. bitts
  6. bittul Torah
  7. bittur
  8. bitturs
  9. bitty
  10. bitty box
  11. bitty boxes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bittul Torah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bittul Torah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bittul_torah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.