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“The Torah that a man studies in this world is meaningless relative to the Torah teachings of Moshiach”

It is thus evident that the study of Torah in this world is no more than an educational preparation for the study proper that will take place in time to come. Indeed, studying Torah in this world grants one the merit of studying the Torah teachings of Moshiach. 

This concept enables us to understand why the very first law detailed in the Hilchos Talmud Torah of the Alter Rebbe, instead of stating that an adult is obliged to study Torah, is the following: “It is a positive commandment explicit in the Torah that a father teach his young son Torah.” Why this precedence? There is a hint here — that the entire study of the Torah in this world is essentially Chinuch, an educational preparation, like the studies of a little child. 

(Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 21, p. 280)