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Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer series where we try to answer very complicated difficult questions in a very short period of time by giving a relatively shallow answer. Anonymous asks, "What is a mealis?" Ais, how many have we had? We learned. Why will all of these clawless, these terrible curses take place? Not because you didn't learn Torah. You weren't. And the way this is usually described as you're sitting there with the sweat pouring down your face. No, you're just sitting back and learning. Can I have a cup of coffee? Sit back. Relax. You know, there's an excuse for me to have my coffee. Does that mean that sweat has to start dripping onto the pages of the s I'm learning because I'm working so hard? So, Hebrew is a great language. When I say Hebrew, I mean lashes. Hebrew if is basically English with a bad accent. Half the words are all English. minimum maximum uh individual poet that's point you know uh coalitzia I I don't even know I said to an Israeli why do you even keep a language anymore just switch to English you know [snorts] there's no hope for Hebrew and he goes optimisti but anyway [laughter] but be that as it may there are a lot of words in Hebrew for work there's aoda that's what we normally see think of as labor. If any of you had a good Zionist education like I did when I was a kid, Oh yeah, the pioneer is for work. Work is for the pioneer. There's well, one of the words for work is um

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer series where we try to answer…
2. 0:34And the way this is usually described as you're sitting there with the sweat pouring down…
3. 1:05basically English with a bad accent. Half the words are all English. minimum maximum uh individual…
4. 1:37that's what we normally see think of as labor. If any of you had a good…
5. 2:40heard Kushalki explain it once. Ammo means labor of love. Labor of love. And he didn't…
6. 3:10every single day. It's all the worries and this and the things that go on with…
7. 3:42this girl what's your parents greatest source of pleasure? Says me. And what's your parents' greatest…
8. 4:43"No, it's it means that when you learn Torah, it's your point of fulfillment." There are…
9. 5:13come home at night and he sits down and uh opens up the newspaper. Says to…
10. 5:46one of the other and one of his guys came up to ask him a question…

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