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י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Thursday
י"ח אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

Toras Habayis / Ch. 4 – 15

The second reason a person refrains from learning at home is because he has become accustomed to sitting idle. This reason does not need refuting, for if a person made a mistake a hundred times, one need not explain to him that it is nevertheless a mistake. If a person rented an expensive vineyard for ten years and left it fallow for five years, surely he would be told to invest extra effort in the remaining five years to pay the rental for all the years and maybe even make a profit. He would not answer that since he left it fallow for five years he may as well leave it that way for the remaining five years. So it is with a person’s life, even though he wasted countless days sitting idle, as long as Hashem gives him strength he should gird his loins and utilize whatever time he has left to study diligently to fill the void.

“And the utterly undoubtable truth is that if the entire world, from one end to the other, would be absent of our engagement and delving into the Torah, even for one moment, literally, then all the worlds - both upper and lower - would be destroyed instantly, and would turn into utter chaos, chas v’shalom…” (Nefesh Hachaim)