How Should a Ben Torah Think About Work? | Rav Asher Weiss

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I think it's a huge mistake for married people, working people to spend most of their time on Eon. Most of the time needs to be dedicated to learn Halakha, to learn Musar. And why is it so important to learn Gemara? Because Gemara is the basis for everything. And this crazy feeling that everybody is after you and everybody wants you it is sick. It's not realistic. But you do need, you know, be nice to people. need, you know, be nice to people. You're allowed to smile, which is a finish. And then there's a siman, you go to work. Who goes to work? Who goes to work after breakfast? Nobody in this country goes to work. So why is that in the Shulchan Aruch? Should be taken out in our days. Working was never considered a binyan av. >> [laughter] >> If you didn't work, you died. If you didn't work, you starved. Everybody went to work. Everybody went to work. Shalom Aleichem and welcome to Start-Up Tech. Is a podcast about the challenges and opportunities of being a mentor in the workforce. As we work on some exciting new episodes, we are going back into the archive to bring you a recording of a sheer that we had with our Usher Weiss 2 years ago this week. It was a very special opportunity to bring a group of Start-Up Tech listeners to Usher's home and ask him some interesting fundamental and hard questions about what it means to be a mentor in the workforce. Over the last 2 years, I have found myself coming back to this episode again and again and again because it contains so many

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3. 7:41There is no clear formula. No one could tell you exactly how many hours you need…
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7. 22:10is your first name not your family name. When you work with with non-Jews or with…
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