Working vs Learning - Which Path is Better?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Yeah. Baruch Hashem. Feels good this thing. The word. We're alive. We're alive. We're alive. Let's speak about the kind of Torah that we want. You know, we're crazy about Torah. We're fanatics for loving kindness. We love the Torah. We want to receive the Torah. Bless you. We want to receive the Torah. Shavuot This is going to be the Torah we're going to have for the whole year. This is like the download day is like the download day coming up. 14 days and counting. The download of the Torah that you're going to have. The download of the red pill that you're going to have for the entire year. Right? Get the right pill. Don't take the wrong one. To the degree to the Torah that you have this year, you're going to be red-pilled. Let's see the real world. To the degree to the Torah that a person doesn't have, sadly, sadly, they'll be blue-pilled. They'll go back just eating, you know, some flanken, some wine, playing some Smash Brothers, and just call it a day. Yeah. Smash Brothers. We want to be in the real world. So, how do we pop out of the matrix? Torah. What kind of Torah we looking for? So, it's the next word in our bracha, u'lkayem. u'lkayem. We're asking Hashem in this bracha u'lkayem, I want to uh I want to uphold the Torah. But, let's see what that means. U'lkayem. So, we're asking Hashem, Hashem, put the Torah into our hearts that we understand it. We can draw conclusions. We can listen to other people teaching us. We ourselves can learn. We can teach. We want to guard the Torah. We want to do the Torah. U'lkayem. So, what's left? U'lkayem. What does this word mean? U'lkayem.

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1. 0:00Yeah. Baruch Hashem. Feels good this thing. The word. We're alive. We're alive. We're alive. Let's…
2. 2:01What does this word mean? U'lkayem. Fulfill. Fulfill. To live. I'm already learning and doing and…
3. 4:02We weren't doing it to be close to God. We were doing it because that's the…
4. 6:08engraved inside of us that we haven't let go of this for thousands of years. That's…
5. 8:11see it rebuilt." Amen. Oof. I just got goosebumps. Wow. Yes. Sounds like Mashiach. Right? Prophetic…
6. 10:49is deeply carved into our hearts. So that's the next part that we're asking Hashem for.…
7. 12:50Sorry, Kaf HaChaim? The Kaf HaChaim. I don't know. From the great Sephardi uh uh poskim.…
8. 14:53That's very, very rare, very rare. Everyone has to learn. Generally though in the beginning of…
9. 16:59their days in the Beit Midrash learning. And they were the teachers. They taught the Jewish…
10. 19:03Don't worry. I was I did it for tzedakah purposes." You can't do that. That's evil.…

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