Pirkei Avos : Chapter 4 - "Leisure Time", The Defining Moment in Life

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we are holding in the fourth paragraph of perce and we hope to learn besides hashem limit your work and involve yourself in torah behavior and if you are bottle from tyra if you negate yourself from the torah if you allow yourself to be distracted from the torah yes you will have many obstacles opposite you via malta torah and if you involve yourself in torah yes he has a lot of reward to give you so mayor basically tells us four statements number one don't work so much and learn tara number two be humble before everyone number three if you are distracted from the torah you will have many distractions and number four if you learn tara hashem has a lot of reward to give you now if we were playing of the game one of these things does not belong here you would immediately know it's the second thing the have a shot with nikolai i mean the whole mission is talking about learning torah he says don't work too much and learn number two if you uh distract yourself you'll have a lot of distractions and and then uh if you learn hashem is a lot of reward where does schwarz come in if you're too hotter you can't learn right you don't have that quality you know and why is it number two here you know like either in the beginning and the end okay maybe we'll have to talk about another occasion um remind me to tell you a certain observation i have i don't have any evidence from any safer that this is true i'm just a an objective uh observer but let us see the khovitskayam wrote a safer called shame oil and in the safer shame islam writes in parakeet about the importance of torah if you are distracted by the if you allow yourself to be distracted but that hashem you know it was a great 40 years in the desert it was just me and canaan but it's going to be when the jews enter the holy land what's going to be with me don't worry there's always shabbos and says similar to this we find in the us not to eat more not to have more time with your family not to sleep more but to learn more you hear this people think oh what shabbos shabbos is more eating and wrong answer shout this is more time for my family and that's why you live in america you have sunday you know that's one of the advantages of america shabbos is more sleep also wrong answer the answer is no the only reason it was given is kade last success people cannot learn steadily uh shabba's people are off the hilum and they need to be involved in it properly and that is why hazal tells us in the gemara the last millionaire there are three causes that balabatim sort of have a downgrade in their finances and one of them is they don't come to the shire on shabbos they kavi sudha saba shabbat russia they're sitting at the table and they they're sitting and they're they're eating they're overeating they're indulging at the time of the crease-based mattress which um the minnow again claw you saw is after the meal after the nap they were quebec rish and those who are kvasuda at that time that's one of the reasons why people end up losing their mind now part of this is not only people getting together to eat at the time of the share it means some people have very long meals and the longer the meal the more tired you are the longer the nap and basically you lose that on the learning side you want to eat the hate just make sure you do it at a different time says this is basically open rebuke to those people who are milling around the streets talking during the time of the kriya space matters because even shabbas which is a mitzvah is awesome at that time because of the torah certainly to be involved milling around okay so we're what are we getting in here besides some good muslim in other words if a person were to say what is the main part of my life when i'm working or when i have free time answers your main life is when you have free time because when when you work you're really working to be able to able to learn um the use of hadas you know and personally ask themselves the same question what are my main years the 50 years that i worked the 40 years that i worked or my retirement no this is life you worked to be able to able to sit and learn with a clean head right well i'm not there yet but uh i'm still working but but the real the real life is when you're able to come and learn um but if a person was mahavin and by the way i'm going to teach you a kiddush now that's not mentioned here if a person has kavanah that when they go to work i'm working so that i can have paranoso so that shabbos i could learn and sunday i could learn and monday memorial day i could learn and immersive when i retire i could learn then all the work is not stopped so you ask what if i forgot to think that so i'm gonna tell you a very important question i heard from a victor miller you could have retroactive kavanagh retroactive and where do we learn that from shikha shikha is a mitzvah that you can't do it at the time because you don't even realize you forgot it but then when you when you wake up say hey i forgot something then you have in mind you know what hashem i forgot it should be for a mitzvah it's called retroactive in other words when you drop the stock when you drop the bundle you're not even aware you dropped if you're aware it wouldn't be shikha in other words if you see it fall it's only when you forgot it so the mitzvah of shikha teaches you you can have retroactive kavanaugh so he he would say that when you say in birkham and you thank hashem hey wait a second when you had the bristol mila you were kicking and screaming you were screaming so loud the model had to plug your mouth with that pacifier and then he put alcohol down your throat then right you didn't want to have it no don't tell me you you wanted to have the meal you didn't want to have it but afterwards after the pain is gone and you save the abrasion you have retroactive cavanaugh hashem i was very i'm very happy to have it for me so too basically the mitzvah is to like let it be let it be forgotten back and get it don't go back don't be a hazard and go back don't go back for you you have to follow me you dropped it don't go back forward write that okay so you're saying the mitzvah is more than not going back that's right then the having dropped it true but the way the way miller review it is that understanding yeah you're you're being rewarded for your retroactive kavanagh really wanted them right right ah so says the meaning of the passage in all of the work that he does that that it should enable a person to mitzvoth he will be rewarded even for his work but there's one condition yeah you work you work your work for 40 years 50 years are you learning on champions are you learning on a legal holiday are you learning when you retire so if you are saying this guy he was mahaden then all of his work was in order to be able to learn so then eventually says you know what your cavanaugh was was genuine and honest but what about a guy the whole week he said yeah i'm going to work to be able to learn come shabbos a bagel they say he's sleeping 12 hours friday night and four and a half hours shabbos day and he catches the last 30 seconds of the rabbi shir and then as soon as poke starts he has to go to the early mara so he learns a total of 45 seconds of hoshagas so how could this guy have legitimately legitimately say that he's working in order to learn and then sunday sunday comes he's off the whole day so it davin's nine o'clock and then 10 o'clock already the wife is calling so he can learn and then the whole day goes on until 11 o'clock he's getting the meat for the barbecue and then one o'clock is showing showing nfl two games one to four four to seven and then you need hashtags for sunday night so the whole day goes by and then monday night already so what's gonna be and then the finals and the stanley cup it's all it's non-stop the whole day of 72 hours go by not not mama one vert this guy is working in order to learn but because initially that's only if time remains to learn shabbos he's not working then he takes advantage who wrote suleiman torah he runs to learn he makes sure friday night maybe a little bit at the pseudo a little bit before he goes to sleep maybe he gets up a little bit shabbos day he he makes sure you know he has a nice meal but is how much could you talk at the meal for i mean how how many desserts can you eat you take a nice nap you wake up and you make sure to learn but like so then his learning is his working is to learn but if during his leisure time he he depletes it with nonsense then it comes out listen to this not only is he movato from torah in other words shabbos is a critical day in a person's life because if when shabbos comes the person doesn't utilize it says not only your movato i'm going to consider it bitter torah all six days of the week because you don't tell me that if you would have had time you'd have been learning i see what you would have been doing if shabbos is peanuts pistachio nuts chocolate covered nuts chocolate covered this chocolate covered this then hashem is going to say i'm giving you seven days of chocolate covered peanuts and not one word of learning don't you tell me that all your work is to be able to do all this hashem what would what would you say if he tells you this fellow who takes this very long nap on chavez and doesn't have i'm all for naps i like yeah and he says listen hashem put me in a situation where i work 12 hours a day to be able to support the family and pay these shiva tuitions i'm so zop i can't sleep during the week because i've got so much on my mind shabbos is the only time i have time for i have a little manuka is that is that am i doing something that's a problem hashem put me in the masa that i worked so hard he worked so hard so you know what he could tell his wife you know when i come home we're going to do malaysia right away the meal will be we'll give an hour and a half i'll learn 20 minutes friday night and i'll make sure i don't need to go to the kiddush and show i'll come home right away i have my souda i have a nice nap but there's always time there's always time so but here's the hidden that if a person doesn't use their leisure time then they're going to be held accountable not only for the leisure time but even for the work time because work is a wonderful thing if it's for the right purpose and the ribosome will see from how a person uses their leisure time how they're going to uh how hashem is going to consider the time he worked today he loses on the whole world of the whole week maybe yeah what about your personality is not about learning his time he is allowed to knock up in the world is wonderful it's very good it's not as important as learning what do you see everybody can learn so open up oh you mean he's he's only working so then all his free time he has to work to support the family but the extra money you get to meet a lot of us you have to be supportive yeah everybody has to give to dhaka kaffir there are many things that anybody could learn especially nowadays okay so i'm gives a marshal look at the martial he says already it's like someone who built built a big courtyard and he spanned for haiti from allah and he would make from this after he completed the building like many wealthy people he actually became insane ezra miller used to say that he remembered as a kid that there was a meeting of the owner of the railroad company and the steel company and the four of the greatest industry owners in the united states america were at a certain meeting within a year two of them committed suicide one of them went insane and the other one his wife divorced him he lost all his money he remembers as a kid but anyway that's not here or there anyway anyway so this guy went meshuggah he did not right inexplicable he didn't let anyone come rent out his hotel we'll talk about your shack somebody comes and meets him and he tells them hoysaka you fool himself you spent twenty thousand ruble kessif to make the hotel you could be making three thousand a year in seven years you're going to cover your costs but now that you locked up the the hotel you're you're meshugganah what are you doing you're losing out all your investments this is what we do this is us we're the same meshugana how we the same shot if when a person is off who writes a the investment of working made sense in other words yeah you basically withered away six days you wasted six days because those six days and i can do anything for the rest of your existence but it was kadai to be able to have a shabbos and hashem could say you know what not only am i going to reward you for shabbos i can reward you for the six days who is but if a person on shabbos invows himself in nonsense then obviously you were not working in order to do away this hashem all your work was basically for nothing if on shabbos friday night is new york times new york post newsweek daily news new york herald and then uh ted hammodia right or whatever other my jewish action jewish this jewish observer allah whatever it is but if that's what you worked for the bunch of them says so your whole week your whole week is the magazine it says i saw this shot in the safer told us who wrote the safa told us yeshua i believe it's on percheves where be sure heller now i looked there i couldn't find it there he explains like this if you are bottle from torah on shabbos on sunday on memorial day on leisure time yes hashem will reckon it that you battle the lot then monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday it was all bitter so what do you mean i had to work out to support my family no no says you're allowed to work as long as you're doing it for the right reasons if the reason you're working is to be able to have time to read more nonsense then it's all bitter tired it's all the same so basically if you're mavato from toronto when you're able to learn then your muslim says i'm gonna reckon the whole lifetime as the tarmac the person in his leisure time uses it properly in his retirement years in his shabbat and his sundays and his mondays and his fridays then the ebony says i see that you know what you work for a legitimate reason and then everything is reckoned as torah not only when you're learning but even when you're not learning so basically says he maps out what your shabbat should look at look like so don't don't be afraid but what we do we have to see what he tells us a person needs to strengthen himself with all his strengths rick not to let shabbos go by empty ella but what should chavez look like besides your meals vishena in your sleep luffy mashud sakhlavarusa what's needed for your health is not saying you should sleep less no so you can have a good sleep friday night have a good nap yeah but you should try your best you're elastic but you should try to use whatever time you're able to for learning then everything you did the whole week will be reckoned as hashem and by the way this is paskin in that poi lim oba labatim workers and balabatim shayna moiska matari my saccharol who don't learn torah during the week alley march over here go tell your friends who are workers who are bella about them that they need to be learning more on shabbos obviously we over here we learn during the week you know it's not the same but even even us we should try to take advantages we we have less responsibilities okay so this is a cloud that the time says um from the toddlers yeshua and the meaning of the mishnah that in bataltom and atari if during leisure time a person withers away the time it's a very frightening thing you have many other times that you're going to be held responsible for okay based on this i came across uh safer shilas sail hakasaf written by rebbi avraham gattinov gattinov or in english well he lived in greece in the 18th century but wherever he lived and whatever nationality was he he invokes the same the same yasoid to explain two difficult sukkim and tanakh one passage is like this hashem to you god is kindness you pay back a man according to his actions and the question is why is the concept of reward ah doesn't hashem he told us he's gonna pay us back doesn't every boss have to pay every worker we're all avde hashem so rasham should have to pay us like any boss pays any worker why is it called so you'll say okay a boss has to pay a worker that's because the worker's not obligated to work for the boss but hashem already paid us back before we started working for him he gave us the arm so when we when we were filling we're paying him back now he should pay us it's just the opposite you know we start off in the red i should be rewarded for the mezuzah hashem gave me the house you know i'm putting the mezuzah to to pay hashem back but that's a big question that the acharyan deal with why is it that hashem gives us reward also there's aposic in mishlai it's actually the last words of the rama in call you may ani ram all the days of the poor man are bad vittoy vlade and the good hearted person mishtatamin is always the simcha well says or however you pronounce his name he says like this is if a person didn't learn when they were healthy then if let's say afterwards a person is sick and they they're not learning because they're sick dummy lamachia the shame how you xiaomi like this let's say evad runs away from his master for a week but then after the second day he ran away he got sick so out of the week he's six days ill comes the owner he catches him he says you owe me seven days of work he says no i was six for sick i was sick for six days i don't know you i couldn't have worked anyway he said you ran away once you run away you had no intention of learning i don't care that you're sick that's a hello myself you gotta pay up another but he has an excuse if he would have been by the master he wouldn't devote anything yeah but you ran away same thing with learning a person doesn't learn when they're able to then even when they're not able to it's bitter tyra it's a frightening thing you have a guy who's lying in the hospital bed you can't learn frightening thing because he didn't take advantage when he could he says you got to pay back even from the sick this is what the torah said the tana says in both yes if a person doesn't learn when they're able to learn they're going to have there's going to be a lot of batola but if a person learned when they can they're going to have a lot of reward not only be rewarded when they can they'll then be rewarded when they didn't learn when they couldn't because they would have here's the soccer so this is even more than the tallest yeshua this is saying that if a person doesn't learn there's going to be a lot of judgment to deal with and if a person does learn success there's a lot of reward even when a person could not well comes the sale hackathon he says with this we could explain the puzzle we can ask what's kim assail the kaf hadimiyan right hashem like their actions it should not see other actions right there's a big cough cough makes a big difference right cough means like there was a guy his wife's name was razie there's a big difference between i see and killerizing right so so the cuff hadimyan makes a big difference is reward from its voice said but the passage says i'm a rewarded person but according to what we just said amor based on what we just said it's very correct the pasik is saying who ish and ish is that sadiq like not only will hashem pay a person for their actions hashem will pay a person this time ish when the verses die you like your actions then a person learns when they're able to then emotionally reward a person chemo so even when they're not able to and that's takahasa is not required to do that someone's obligated maybe to repay a person for what they do but not for what they don't do when they couldn't do it but basically one person can't work at most you get disability hashem says i give more than disability i give exactly what you did you want to run some good second i hold like the maram in other words when you couldn't do it i don't owe you the money and then he says like this look in the last paragraph and therefore we could say on the pasta call you may oni royem the toy blade what's an ani who's a real honey a riolani is someone who has no tara someone who's an ani and doesn't learn torah when he can call yume on iran all his days are bad sai when he didn't learn when he couldn't learn and even excuse me sai when he didn't learn when he caught the word could have learned and even when he doesn't learn when he can learn it's also going to be bad for him endless carcal it's like someone who ran away back holla but the toy vlade what's a toy blade toy blade ain't toy bella torah someone who learns when they can mish he's gonna be rewarded not only for when he learns when he does learn but even when he's an anus and he can't learn i want to share with you the one thing this year is missing is akhida so i want to tell you an amazing interpretation of the khida interhouse we all know that tyra is a big accusation the yoymer adam but a person could say look i had to get a high school degree i had to get a college degree i had to go to work as for my family for 40 years no problem you had to because they last is coco the talabai taffley look i have a kids have expenses to italian is crazy us and all other false tennis in america we have two days yamthe in israel they only have five magazines they only need one day of yamtif but in america barak hashem with the proliferation of magazines we have three day yum and otherwise how can you possibly read all of them right so it says the pasta cause of their sacrifice shaynam right that's the standard in other words the barometer of a person's life is their leisure time okay and therefore we have a very important thing rabbi sorrow solanter teaches us a critical thing and that is in judaism it's not all or nothing but a person is held more accountable for doing an aveira when it was easy not to do the avira then for doing everyone who's hard not to do that right in other words let's say a person is not feeling well and on another day a person is feeling great when are they more accountable to use their time wisely when they're feeling well in other words a person is more accountable when it was easy than when it was hard and therefore revistral cilantro says like this look at number eight casa rabbino you saw solange should call mitzvah versus the easier it is for to do a mitzvah or not to violent vera camuras when a person was busy so therefore there's a safer binyani talks about the importance of diligence and learning he said when is it the easiest to learn when you're actually sitting there in front of the safer right the easiest time you have to learn is when you're sitting there in front of the safer and therefore the time that a person will be held accountable for not learning once a person is home already the most in the easiest time to learn is when you're sitting in front of the table the safer is there any easier time to learn than when you're sitting in front of the safe and learning show us how like fire spider-man sucks you already cleared out the schedule to be able to learn and if while he's learning he's not learning or a person's preoccupied in his mind then he's not learning at the easiest time and that's the time that a person will be held most accountable for so therefore a person has to not only make sure that they use their time properly but especially the times that they've already dedicated for learning they come into a share on the shabbos and you know they somebody calls him no answer is no not getting off once you're already sitting down to learn you have to make sure to use that time as best as possible okay so this is a a uh shot in the mishnah in bat if a person doesn't if a person distracts himself from torah when he's able to learn you'll be held accountable even when you're not able to but in my mouth or a person learns when they're able to then a person will be rewarded even for times that they will we're not able to let's offer one more shot and this is based on the you xiaomi you show me says like this and this is an observation that i don't know why but this is i believe the reality and that is a guy tells me rabbi i'm so sorry i couldn't make the shirt my car broke down and i couldn't make it and attack attacker his car broke down and he couldn't make it i'm willing to bet 50 50 he ain't making it the next week why i don't know why the reality is even if a person doesn't learn even when they have a good excuse the next time they're not going to learn even when they don't have that excuse i don't know why that is it's just something i see i couldn't learn my wife was villain i had to stay home so what do you want from the guy sometimes eventually once you need to come even though you can't because it's going to be harder to come next time when you can i don't know why that is but that's what i see that's what i see so i don't know about you that's what i see people who have a legitimacy show up the next week and the week after and the weekend yeah but very often very often the legitimate excuse becomes in illegitimate no it doesn't become i don't know it don't feel so bad you didn't come so then maybe it's because maybe it's because that um a person in order to do a mitzvah they have to have his hus that wizard to do the mitzvah so maybe part of this is you have to really want it enough one of the reasons that mordecai was held accountable for saving claudius for all but he had to do it kalisto's life was on the line it's one of the farshims say yeah but if he would have valued toro moore hashem wouldn't have put him in the situation where he he wasn't able to learn so sometimes a person says oh what do you want i'm excused yeah but why did hashem give you an excuse okay so let's see if anybody says this now barbanel and this is based on the ushami there's a statement to xiaomi that people quote does it say that anywhere i don't think so i don't think so the usami says in the book of the righteous it says like this you say you leave me for a day i'll leave you for two days says if a person is mavata from torah at will because of his needs rabbis with tom robin listen to this that sometimes a person misses for a legitimate reason or what he deems legitimate it could bring on things that prevent him in other words you know what today i'm gonna go do that says the about renewal it could bring on f circumstance extenuating circumstances in other words sometimes things happen in life that unfortunately a person's not able to why do they happen sometimes we could we could instigate it says look if it's not really that important to you so then uh maybe i'm not gonna i'm not gonna give you the uh the opportunity for um in other words a person has to be very cautious what they consider legitimate because there's so many things in life that could sort of interfere with the person's schedule you know what you won't have to miss for this you won't have to miss for that like because i'll say that would be the people of the generation they didn't want to be involved in in torah and they would respond what do you want we got to make a living and you may meaning even when they were in the desert hashem was able to provide them in other words like this sometimes in life you gotta stick yourself out a little bit i need it says abanel sometimes take the chance you think you need it revolution has other ways of making sure you get what you think you need but if a person sources look i need it says that barbados there's so many things in life that could that could hold a person back if you look at number 11 the arva nacho says like this what's the reason what's the logic what's this mechanism of in tasmania look i know about myself the moment you sort of relax a little bit the moment you the tar says you go away from me a foot i go away two feet you go away a day i go into it why is that it's all a matter of appetite and in order to keep the appetite going for the torah you need to learn the more you learn the stronger the appetite the less you learn the less the appetite so once a princess you know what not right now not today maybe a different time your appetite dulls and you don't want it as much the next time you don't want it as much next time um he says it is and once the desire weakens it it causes greater bitter bitter but when a person sort of you know people ask i don't wanna i'm i don't not interested in learning i don't feel like learning no kidding you know why because you're not so you don't have an appetite for it just what is it what should a person do if he doesn't want to learn you should learn and then he'll want to learn the more you learn the more you want it the more you want it the more you learn take a step back it's a very unusual relationship you know the torah is like a wife it's a complex relationship it's not you know the more you give the more you invest the better it is the less you invest you're gonna you're gonna get it rather quickly right and uh it's an arusa and it's also an asua and this is the concept of atar but a person you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com