Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Hiyya were arguing about the best mechanism to save the Torah when it seemed on the cusp of being neglected and forgotten by our people. Rabbi Hanina insisted that he would bring the people back by his reasoning. Rabbi Hiyya said that he would sow flax, catch a deer, make scrolls from their skins and copy the Torah onto them. Then he would find five children and teach them the five books of the Torah. He would then instruct six children on the six orders of the MIshna. He would then have them teach one another what they had learned. That is how he would preserve the Torah. –Baba Metsia 85b
It is a powerful and meaningful story. One personality may be strong and capable to imparting wisdom while others are more adept at teaching by example.
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