Learning Torah, vs. saving lives: Megillah 16b
Learning Torah, vs. building the Temple: Megillah 16b
Learning Torah, vs. honoring one's parents: Megillah 16b-17a
Learning Torah, vs. bringing the daily Temple offering: Eruvin 63b; Megillah 3a-b Invalidating someone from testimony, if he isn't involved in study of Torah and the society of others: Kiddushin 40b
Permitting Exertion on Shabbat to prevent Waste from Torah: Shabbat 126b
Waste of time from Torah causes physical suffering: Berachot 5a The destruction of Jerusalem: Shabbat 119b
One who does not ad time for learning when the nights lengthen, ought to die young: Taanit 31a
Travelling 4 Cubits without learning: Succah 28a; Megillah 28a
Hashem "crying" over the Waste due to Exile: Chagigah 5b
Hashem "crying" over one who can learn Torah and opts not to: Chagigah 5b
Better to be the one who ushers people into the Study Hall, than the one who announces the time for meals: Shabbat 118b
Prohibition against sleeping, beyond a brief nap, during the day: Succah 26b Joshua's encounter with an angel who rebuked him for not bringing the daily afternoon offering, and for not being involved in Torah study, primarily for the latter reason, on the night before the war with Jericho: Eruvin 63b; Megillah 3a-b Punished with drought: Taanit 7b
Halting Learning for the Sake of a Mitzvah
For escorting a bride to her wedding: Megillah 3b, 29a; Ketuvot 17a
Above, where there already is enough of an Entourage: Ketuvot 17a
What the "needed" size of an entourage for escorting a bride, or escorting a body, is: Megillah 29a
The above, where the deceased was a student/teacher of Torah: Megillah 29a
For the Mitzvah of Entertaining Guests: Shabbat 127a
For escorting a body to burial: Megillah 29a; Ketuvot 17a-b
For Temple Service: Megillah 3a-b
For Enjoyment of Shabbat: Shabbat 119a-b
For the Purim Feast: Megillah 7b
Before Searching for Leaven before Pesach: Pesachim 4a
To put children to sleep on the day before Pesach, so that they will stay awake Pesach night: Pesachim 109a; Succah 28a
To feed children on the day before Yom Kippur, so that they will be able to fast: Pesachim 109a; Succah 28a
To Read the Purim Story: Megillah 3a-b
Reading the Prophets and Writings: Shabbat 115a-b
To bury a corpse which has no buriers: Megillah 3b
Shutting down Study Halls for the week of mourning of a Legal Decisor, Chief Justice, or Leader of the Jews: Moed Katan 22b-23a
To Stand before one's Rebbe: Kiddushin 33b
To Stand before a Torah Scroll which is Being Moved: Kiddushin 33b
For a Torah Scholar to cease learning for a war: Nedarim 32a