Rabbi Hershel Schachter: Balancing Torah Study with Other Obligations

city field will never be the same I'll tell you casey stengel Gary Carter and you but Alec I'm Tom Seaver they never imagined this we were on behalf of the öyou family we want to thank each and every one of you for joining the family and joining us today god bless each and every one of you you know Fila is how we communicate how we reach out to the Almighty what's Torah how the almighty reaches to us what he has to say to us and every morning we start out our day Talmud Torah can negate Coulomb we quote the Gemara in Chaves and that is what that whether it's my relationship with myself my employees my master and maker well it's my relationship with my spouse my body God speaks to us and he lays out a series of axioms and postulates we started out tour at CitiField this morning with rabbi roster and rabbi elephant speaking about an employer's responsibility to their employees last week in the daf it was the opposite whatsit employees responsibility to their employers in this area Talmud Torah kanigan Coulomb it defines our religion it's a religion of hokhmah of rationality it's a religion of thought of concepts of ideas of Moshe Feinstein's that sell the POE sake adorn the gut al HUD door who on seven continents Jews from around the world sent their Silas to him what happened after 40 years of playing that role he was asked to have a retrospect and reflect upon his life and he says you know I have two disappointments people ask me about everything in anything but there's two areas of halakhah that I should be getting so many shila's about and I don't receive them that is Hill hasta matura how does one prioritize their own learning what do they focus on and the second is Hill hasta Dhaka an in that light and the statement of the PO Seca door of Marcia we asked rehearsal Schecter one of our postcard or riff schechter who gets shila's from four continents the world lives by Rev Schecter every area whether it's Reproductive Endocrinology whether its financial transactions whether it's communal individual needs we turn to the rush kollel to rev Schecter for our needs to mentor and to guide us in secondly Ravi own essence acts the Russia Shiva the Russia Shiva Flanders college of Turo college whose mentoring 400 young men who will be the future of the Jewish people and these two great Tommy to come him are gonna help us define our relationship with the almighty define that Mitzvah that is the defining factor in our Yiddish kite in our relationship with the rabona Sholem without further ado it's a great source we'd like to ask everyone to rise as we hear from the rush kollel rehearsal chapter thank you very much mmm Hamish we have the midst of Talmud Torah mention quite a few times and the baser lady points out that there were two different aspects that omits one part of the mid series of a maritime awesome whoosh Martha mouth so some we have to learn the laws of the Torah in order to know how to observe the Mitsos as far as this is concerned that Lehmann Arthur's action mitzvot that enables us to observe Shabbos in cash with sinteres Amish Baca and everything else the men and the women are equally obligated women are just as obligated is meant to learn all of the sections in children are very relevant to them then there's an additional aspect of Liman iturra that's a mitzvah business arts no even we who live in hoots laurits and we don't stumble upon any agricultural mitzvahs here a few made the rabbinate but on the level of their i said we don't have any agriculture mitzvahs but still may not throw there is a mitzvah that we should learn cava tarakudo exactly how serious is this mitzvah so the PASOK says in Korea Shima the debar topham shift of above a circle of a Shopaholic ooh Mecca so the Mara has a mark like is where the Krishna is there I said they're abundant how could create might be there a bomb it's a PASOK the depart a bomb shock of chimera so the robindira explains it means that the choice of those specific chapters to be researched mama oh I'm sure my that's only made the rub on the mitzvot the post Connelly means we should learn Tyra the shock of chimera you can minute or it can choose whatever partial you want you can be Marva cetera I'm shocked the whole chemical it's only made their abundant that you have to recite the avocado your I'm sure mile the generally accepted opinion thank you very much generally accepted opinion is there are bombs view that Korea Sh'ma is there Isis amok like is Nick Amaro dice vez seems to halt the creation must love their eyes but the roms opinion has has been accepted they were curious Mars their icer the obligation to Lauren Tyra is a separate Mitzvah these accounted in the listing of the 613 mitzvahs counted as two distinct mitzvahs one myths of the learned Tyra and other matsuda to recite creation every day be shocked how often does a person have to learn theorem when to say the passing the shop of começo goes on creation ah so what about the other sukham that speak about Tom Madera how often does a person have to learn tur so if you wouldn't have any additional su Kim would have probably said that once a day every day just like Nick Moore says adorning a coin is only obligated to Dauphin when he is called upon when we request of him to do but even were requests of him to Dawson let's say he doesn't buy the first minion everybody talking about the first minion and then the second minion doesn't have a coin so they asked him but he can stay over to do him by the second minion as well so the Gemara says he's not obligated to not men i turn that Mandira button the fact that that the Kohanim Budokan by chakras are obligated to do n again by moseph a second time inherits it so don't my chakra sent by moseph that's only madeira Bonham minute area since the park is written is tama it's unclear how often you have to observe them it's so itself understood that it's once a day every day now obligated to do it more than once a day there are mob thinks the same is true regarding Fela that the obligation the Dobbin three times a day four times a day five times a day on Yom Kippur Yadav and rusev in the illa and everything that's only made the rub on it but the obligation to Dobbin once a day every day according to their arm that's a biblical obligation that's been ather how did he get based on the possibility of the behold above him so how did it get this idea once a day every day so the Martian say got it when I came or abide Oconee tomorrow's economy are only obligated to do and once a day every day the same is true regarding Fela the posit doesn't say how often you have the diamonds itself understood once a day every day but so if he wouldn't have an additional PASOK the shed light on the nature of the midst of town matter we would have argued the point and said that the obligation to learn is a little bit once the day every day but we have a person can say for yoshua then interprets the tsuki mcComish pasa can say feel short says buggies about your mama Loyola so that so that leads us often to interpretations think more presents amok like a satanic the government office has amok like it's a type one opinion has it and that's the generally accepted opinion one opinion has it that instead of saying once a day every day we say once a day every day and once a night every night it's like the pasok like if we would have said krishna is live there ice so we said the D bar table means the Mitzvah of Talmud Torah push-off North America once a day every day once a night every night so we pass can we assume like the ROM that the Curia Schmid's their isin so be shocked America burns on Korea Sh'ma then there's a separate myths of Talmud Torah so the passage says Varghese about yama loyola a little bit every day a little bit every night so the kumara cells there are some bits with to tell everybody that one D Dharma chakra isn't it dab in my rib and everybody that mushakraj says the treat partial schwäbisch my environment so strictly speaking everybody besides in the midst of Talmud Torah because you learn touch Mac topic every day you're not touch mac topic every night so strictly speaking it's that's the generally accepted opinion that Varghese Aoyama lillah tells us not that it's once a day every day once a day every day and once a night every night nothing amar has another opinion that's generally not the accepted opinion the commentaries and show cannot quote that minority of debris shine in Pascal like that that we understand the PASOK gives by Yama Lila to mean that we have to learn by how smart am aruba all day and all night so generally that's not the accepted opinion so the question is why do we assume why are we encouraging people to go to the base mesh and learn every evening got to learn curl old biker before they go before the damn chakras they start learning every morning at 5:30 DAF yummier every night what's the whole story I'd say with a smack dab a big more associated with the creation man that kid that you recite every day for chakras and every day from my room so the answer is that there's another passage that tells us what is the nature of the midst of Talmud Torah a lot of the boys are learning these Shiva's don't realises what is the essence of the mitzvot so the boys think that the mitzvahs 2's good caches and say they answer replicas Vegas caches together good two roots in that's the icing on top of the second piece of cake what's the main course what's the main myths of the matter so they may miss was of Amara the most Amish Martin was awesome to learn what are the 630 meters and to know all of the D tells of the Mitsos that's why you look in the Rambam there I'm I'm wrote the safe a minute ago well he gives you an abridged form of collateral Cola he says all you have to do is return after and then you read my safer and it gives you a beak it's of all I'm askin ins of autumn dialogue all the details regarding all the 613 bit says so the ramen brotas by way of introduction to the mission of Tyra he wrote the safer I'm it suits it was written in Arabic but it's in the mission and Tara's written in Hebrew but they but they say from its list is the introduction to the yada Hozuki and then in the in the mission attire in the other house welcome in the beginning of every section the Rambam says this sections going to have 15 minutes lists 10 bits this essay and five minutes of slow says this section is gonna have 25 mixes 15 minutes less essay and 10 minutes versus a then when you get to the end of the whole mission a diagram you see that the Rama has covered all the six hundred thirty minutes was the whole the Iike the essence of learning tire is really to learn which are the 613 mitzvot so America Muslim and to learn all of the details of all of these mixes unfortunately in the Shiva is the emphasize so much till pulao shelter Redeemer says but pollution Terra was originally given to moshe a bane as a Madonna that he should have the right to keep that for his descendants they'll be the only ones who will know how to figure out how you establish our locus well Shabana was a good-hearted fellow he is not but time for Sian they gave it over to Chloe so so that's but and she was relating the ice cream we were leading that wasn't the main Mitzvah of Thamud our main mid-south um tourists and or which are the 630 mitzvahs to know all of the details every Jewish person is obligated to learn call Arthur cool every Jewish men women are only obligated to learn those sections of our a chimera dia have been as a hush mission but that irrelevant to them micarta macaque toys I know annoying guess though and in how far women make our Terrace Amish poker the women have to learn all that in and that our wealth and irrelevant for them and the men have an obligation to learn all of the 613 mitzvahs and all of the details of these hollow has so even if one should assume the way we accept la la cabeza yeah Malala doesn't mean we have to learn by housemother all day and all night every free minute of the day hmm even if you'll still United with the Shmack topic every day you recited the three partials of Sh'ma by chakras and one we sided the three partials of ups mob by my ribs so yeah I'd say the middle of Huggies by Yamaha loyola but still a person has to figure out how he's going to miss the coloratura cool it doesn't mean has to do it today right now we have a whole lifetime so we have to figure out how in the course of our lifetime we will succeed how the men will succeed in covering collateral cool questions how was that physically possible the Kaaba collateral cooler tomorrow has a comment in everything on the poster guru Hamer it's me the raha the medium that the park is speaking about something that's so vast it's impossible to fathom something Sigmar said that's referring to the Taira the tour is impossible to grab them everything in the third how can you say there's an obligation every Jewish person people make a mistake they think only rub on him or anima handsome or on the helium I'm relieved to learn call that era cooler it's not so the obligation is moot Allah and every Jewish man to learn quality Riku so how was that possible how is it how was it physically possible the master color tarakudo if the Gemara says the tourists i Ruffa merits me the record mania so the answer is given by that Powhatan yin first LaBarbara ever has he wrote his opener so basically those are familiar shock of the of the alter rebbe is something along the lines of the high autumn like the hawk mossad me give you a beak it's a what it says in show corner and he makes a half Koroma net but it's a mock like as the toes in the bargain a brahma gives you his mother is a crow whenever there's muck like this near a day between the toes and the shark I'll give you his sacrum except for he'll cast on the Turkish no matter he rewrote from the beginning to the end because he look in the Rambam me looking the showrunner I'm Tyra they never did a good job on that the ramen starts services a mother who is partner from the fee of tamatha said of starting off who was fireman to what extent is one believe his thoughts with the pure so that's where the ballot Anya rewrote the whole hill kilometer and he has this comment in his section at Augustana theorem how is it possible to say that every Jewish man obligated to mr. Collett are cool it's a real cámaras me though rock autumn in a yam so he says that Amara is speaking about the depth of understanding of the laws of the term but what is the text of kolitar cooler it's not that difficult it's not that much when you go to law school you have to read more books than this when you go a certain in certain areas certain disciplines you after me you have to cover more books than the definition of call it Erica what consists what constitutes color Terkel so the alter rebbe says the 24c free heart ana believe in and not learning Fela is also part of time whatever summer and the Shiva's they forget about that they think it's that something else Lima not there is only Gomorrah that's not so so you have to learn kolitar cool includes all of that ah Mishnah estas after Bob Lee you wish on me see if you're a famous healthy Rambam and Chauvin or rather not so much not so much when you go to any Jewish library yes so many Swami a proper bearer of Naphtali Arab shame and there's so many for him commenting on these but the basic text of collet or Kula that each jewish man is obligated to Wester is that's the text all of cifra knockoff dollars if retina which nice thus after a frosty framing filter publish on me and Rama man chef/owner so it practically boils down to saying that we really accept the opinion of the other at the other ton and the other sheet and every showing him that we take the plastic buggy sublimable Euler literally that one is obligated to learn every free minute of the day we don't really pass him like that but if the person is not gonna person just gonna be a week we asked my by chakras amirev he's not gonna miss the call of toka it's not gonna know which other 613 mitzvot I'm not gonna all the details so boils ant is saying that every Jewish man is moved to learn every free minute that he has cleave to learn term what do we say every free minute let's say a person has to make a par no sir normal people make up are no sir person has to eat the esta sleep he has to raise a family so what the Mitzvah making up our noses such a big Mitzvah that it precedence over the Mitzvah of learning Torah there is a mitzvah Panos there are mine chief owner says it's a mitzvah Nilka Shabbos he says there is a mitzvah to make upon us and it's not some Mila Dharma it's a mitzvah to make upon us about the myths with the makeup on osa is not that much is not that it's so much greater than the myths of the Talmud Torah we should say that mitts of Talmud Torah is darker limits for Panos so the answer is Roberta has this famous essay Shuba the shaman Medina you do a rabbi Schwab's final about him when he was a young student learning in you Shiva's so he sent to Charlotte the different a cedar rapids into different Russia's Shiva whether he should go to university as the practice was in Germany Medina Udo was Germany or should he sit and learn all day long so the different Robin gave him different answers so their birthday is one of the prominent Rob on him who published the whole essay and response to ravish Rob's Shiloh so Roberta develops the idea based on the beer I grow the comment area of the Vilna Gaon Mishnah is payor that's with my his students out there mercilessly my family huh grow so the only gone explain to the obligation even if one should assume Varghese by Yamaha Loyola means one is obligated to learn but small the Maroubra all day and all night it's not that the paranoia is defense not that the midst of eating breakfast lunch and supper is data or speaking to a wife is directly know the whole by definition the whole mitzvah to learn Tara's only one is obligated to learn Tara when he has free time if he has to make up our noses so he doesn't that free time so yes they try to keep that choice as much free time as possible if he can choose one of two different jobs if I'll take one job he'll make a million dollars a year take another job we'll make a quarter million dollars a year and he can support his whole family and put away money in savings by making a quarter million dollars a year and he and he's intelligent that he's bright and with the extra time he'll only work every day with one job will work every day and have time to learn with the other job we'll make our work all day and make a million dollars said then that means that that's free time he should choose to take the job that'll give him a quarter of a million dollars a day and learn the rest of the time because that's really free time can't hide behind the turrets that he has to make upon us he's making upon us making quite a billion dollars a year that's enough to live on for sure so whenever that's the definition of the Mitzvah whenever a person has free time one is obligated to learn third that's how the Vilna Gaon is quoted in it there is a llama Schneider's pay a lot of times people must understand Russia in his commentary on Hamish quotes this I gotta tell from the Gemara in in Magilla that for the 14 years that yankov was learning in the sheepish and the haver he wasn't punished for his lack of fulfilling the mitzvah of keep it off so there's a poisonous even misunderstand that demerit I mean whenever there is a conflict between keyboard of in the mid-south Amaterasu Tom Atari takes precedence that is not correct it says explicitly in Chohan or otherwise we follow show cannot says perfection showing off of the person a boy sitting at home and learning and his mother estimate to please take out the garbage of the Farley we are simply please park the car please go shopping for something so he has to be mop stick in the middle of learning and to do the Mitzvah the definition of free time one is obligated to learn every free minute that he has when he has free time if you move to do a myth so I've keep it up I'm equipped to do any Mitzvah so then that time is not free time even if one is only obligated to fulfill amid submit their opponent so I'm a firm raise the question the Gemara has a whole Sookie in your mama some tough Sadiq that yesh crafty are common blocker dogma eternity shave I'll toss the rabbi's have authority based on super Mohammed the rabbi's have authority to prohibit us from blowing show Fuhrman reshawna falls out on Shabbos or to prohibit a garish and his garb Arab Pesach the Gera is not permitted to bring carbon tasajo to prohibit us from putting citizens on a bag and shall pitch them because of a concern the Marseillaise CARICOM him like a doorman a terribly shady I'll toss that they insist that we shouldn't fulfill certain business so is that the case by every Mitzvah Madeira button when you bench conical lift it takes a little time when you haven't three times a day four times a day five times a day it takes a lot of time so if the obligation to dub and more than once a day is only matter upon and so the more should have said every time is fulfilling amid some in our bad luck there was kinda it takes a few minutes motion has said every time the her column introduced emits from in their opponent there an effect employing that principle the escapee aha calm him like a doorman a terribly shape I'll discuss it telling us not to learn during that period of time so the family has a long essay but they said yeah that's not correct once the humming required of us that we have to do a certain Mitzvah so that's not free time it's not that the midsummer the Robin and it's so important that is data a mitzvah of Talmud Torah little raw bananas on is important that mitzvahs down with her but that's not free time by definition is not free time the camera has a clown holistic minute support them in emits and when a person is busy doing one Mitzvah his father and some Russian who say is prohibited from being map6 when that Mitzvah to do another Mitzvah so they're both the bobbly annually shall me say that this rule does not apply to Talmud Torah when I mean a person is busy learning all day long so he doesn't have to dive in chakras mean if I'm Irish it doesn't have to shake a little of it doesn't have to say how long doesn't have to Dava Musa what do you mean he's busy learning all day long so they Kamaria both the bobbly i never saw me give the same come out that that principle doesn't apply I Sigma MIT's apartment I mean so it doesn't apply when it comes to Talmud Torah if you're obligated to perform a mitzvah so that's not free time so there's no fuse to learn Torah at that time but every person has an obligation when every person has free time the attacker has to learn when he has the free time he has to learn many communities there upon him the younger abandon are encouraging the Bala bottoms to get more into learning so the instituted Duffy I'm is sure and whatever mission is whatever in the morning and the evening at night whatever that's a wonderful thing but it's not for everybody we have to realize not for everybody sometimes people have to there's a mitzvah to spend time with your wife or you know sex is Fiona enemies to spend time with your wife it's part of the definition of wine there's a mitzvah to raise your children to be Mahina for your children what are you gonna leave everything to your wife so sometimes if the wife is satisfied with that set up okay so she'll encourage her husband to go learn the base marriage that's wonderful if she'll be able to see to it that the children do the homework and there shall be able to discipline all the children but if you see that the wife is is pleading with her husband - please help raise the children please spend a little time with the chill to do the homework with them so then that's not right that the husband runs to the base marriage to learn the dinner basically mr. Putterman I'm it so it does not apply to Talmud her husband has no right to say I'm busy learning therefore I'm not going to spend time to do all the other images unfortunately unfortunately there are too many cases where the shoreland bias is ruined by the husband because of his insistence that he wants to go learn all the time that he doesn't take any responsibility with respect to raising the children that's not right hmm that's the husband Steve that's the father Steve to raise the children to be Mahon of the children and the husband has an obligation to spend time with his wife as well if the wife is encouraging that would be wonderful if the wife is encouraging the husband to please leave the house and that please go learn that's marvelous and then then the husband has free time then is believed to learn I think it's a wonderful idea that the Orthodox Union is like to get more involved now and he certainly monitory we should all be much later in this area thank you very much