Birkas HaTorah: the Students of the Vilna Gaon Debate on Whether They Can Debate With Him
Rabbi Mendel Krasnjanski
Source Sheet Is Birkas Hatorah Deoraisa? If Deoraisa, is it a separate mitzva? Do you need a Brocho to think Torah? Is thinking like speaking? Is writing like speaking? Can you write Sefiras Haomer? Can witnesses write their testimony? Do you need to say the words of Bitul Chametz?