Studying Torah Instead of Working: Is it OK?

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

foreign let's again plunge into another kind of Adventure in which we will try by the way uh Saturday night I my wife she was watching one of the last lectures was not to waste time I just urge you and for the first time I sat down to see I hate to see myself sat down to see I hate to see myself but I sat down with them for a whole hour and a half and I tell you it's a very good lecture it's it's very good yeah but I couldn't I didn't believe that it was it was that good I mean to me I if I say that it is good to meet unbelievable very flowing and everything was to end every kind of years any kind of ears every kind of years any kind of ears so it's worth it to go through all the lectures that we shouldn't be just hitting the the bag when it's empty it makes noise but there is nothing effective so it's good to to see it tonight we will discuss a topic that perhaps not many discuss nevertheless when the issue nevertheless when the issue comes up in any kind of discussion you will see that the discussion is inflamed and people they are very inflamed with the with this issue everybody knows that there are today everywhere in the world those institutions that we call not only Yeshiva but also the kolelim where people spend all their days sometimes all their nights also studying sometimes all their nights also studying Torah and the question is being asked by many people is it okay to to spend your life studying without working what are we supposed to do let's say you are a good Jew you are mindful about the obligations that the Torah expects from us we understand the important task of

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1. 0:00foreign let's again plunge into another kind of Adventure in which we will try by the…
2. 6:16us how to conduct ourselves and you know to be possible for that you need people…
3. 12:31for what they lost whom are you going whom are you going to serve first your…
4. 18:45to work so here we have a definite statement by our Sages that not only allows…
5. 24:53is it possible that the Yoke of the and the burden of making a living is…
6. 31:06that would be stealing no who who does calculate his steps in this manner today how…
7. 37:24smoke the great pillar of of the cloud that was going with them it practically ironed…
8. 43:34no such a thing the Jewish people was told that they have to work and that's…
9. 49:46all right I'll hire you you come today Shiva don't work just sit down and and…
10. 55:59which he makes a living that guy is the source of our life so I did…

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