Bais HaLevi #17 - Bitachon

Today's shiur is sponsored by Eli and Ayala Loebenberg of New City, NY.

Chapters

• 0:00 Sponsorship and Introduction
• 0:49 Man Born for Toil Principle
• 1:20 Choice Between Torah and Worldly Pursuits
• 2:01 Ethics of Our Fathers Teaching
• 2:38 Conclusion of Beis Alevi Series

Transcript

Speaker 0: 0:15

Today's shiur is sponsored by Eli and Ayala Lopenberg of New City, new York. Thank you so much for your sponsorship, wishing you atzalacha in all your endeavors. Okay, everybody, welcome back to the Lech Teichmuzer podcast. We continue with the Beis Alevi Amitachin Parak Chafee, chapter 25. The choice is yours. Sometimes we don't want to hear these words, but that's the fact Toil in Torah or toil in mundane matters.

Speaker 0: 0:42

The Beis Alevi is going to conclude this essay, the past 25 prokim. He concludes with this one by speaking about the centrality of Torah study and its relationship to Ishtadus. The Torah says a very great khal, a rule, a principle. Man was born for toil. Great khal, a rule, a principle. Adam la'amal yulod. Man was born for toil. V'amu b'medrash zahal la'amal teirah le'zahal la'amal derech eretz, a person who merits. He will toil in teirah, but if he does not merit, he will toil in worldly matters. D'hinei yitzi raseh shal'adam yikorei hu rak li'giy, created primarily for the purpose of engaging in effort for making parnosa and toyal. But the choice is up to us if we're going to be, if we're going to toyal in toyal or in worldly pursuits. For if his toyal will be in toyal, he will not need to engage in the mundane toyal of this world, toiling for a livelihood.

Speaker 0: 1:46

It's Beferish HaMishnah, mishnah in ethics of our fathers, ovis Perigimel Mishnahei. So if someone doesn't believe in this, go look over there. Anyone who accepts upon himself the yoke of Torah, which means he undertakes to make Talmud Torah, studying the Torah, his primary focus, his only focus. In turn, the yoke of serving the government and the yoke of worldly matters are removed from him, and whoever casts off the yoke of Torah from himself, he is thus replacing the yoke of Torah with the yoke of earning a livelihood. So the Bais Leib is telling us over here that we all have to work, we all have to toil, but what we will toil in is essentially up to us. Ucha amram ani amo makabim sochar. V'hem amelim v'inim makabim sochar.

Speaker 0: 2:32

The idea that a person who devotes it's also said in the Gemara in Brachas I who engage in Torah, study, toil and receive divine reward, where those who do not engage in the Torah toil and do not receive divine reward. Now, this is a very tremendous, big, loaded topic. It's not for a three-minute shiur, a three-minute podcast audio. However, you're listening to this and you should definitely confide with your Das Torah. That is not I, but it's good to know the Yisoydis, know the Mar Mekoyimis, the Chazals, and speak to your Dostoyev about it. Speak to yourself about it, because the choice is yours.

Speaker 0: 3:05

We've reached a very special moment, a very special day in history. As we conclude now the Sefer Bais Alevi on Betochan, with Mirtz Hashem, we'll be moving on to the next Sefer of Bais Alevi on the Inyonim of Ahavas, Yisrael Mazel Tov to all who have completed this with us Hajj and Allah, safer Mayim Rabbe Tov on the Baal Beis Alevi. Thank you all for joining and we look forward to having you on the next leg of the journey. Beis Hashem, yisbarach, afreylech Amparam. We will see you soon, amir Tzashem.