Rav Ovadia Yosef Learning Torah In Poverty

says if someone really truly understands it at the very least they'll become a happy at best they become someone doesn't understand it could have the other the opposite effect of how this Mishna works. So says, "Whoever fulfills the Torah despite poverty will ultimately fulfill it in wealth and whoever neglects the Torah because of wealth will ultimately neglect it in poverty." So first part most people know and most people like most people know the story of uh many of the sadikim as recent as even when uh he was supposed to get married the sisters of his wife uh made fun of her said what are you going to marry this guy what are you going to eat books doesn't make any money in those days. There's no uh giving a stipen to the uh to the uh nothing. They were much poor. Poor nothing. Nothing to eat. Like poor today means that you don't have snacks in your house. Poor back then means that you didn't eat for two three days. So the were especially poor now and there's no hope of making money because they're learning all day. So the sisters of his wife, his future wife, tell him, "Why are you marrying this guy? What are you going to eat books? What are you going to eat?" Eventually, he won an award for writing one of the books. And that was he went mala mala. But it was m people was frowned upon to marry because they were so poor. But he actually he's one of the few that uh we saw Mamash live this Mishna. At some point they write in his bio. Anyone that hasn't read his bio should mash read it. It's amazing amazing bio on there's a few of them but they're all amazing. Says that in the beginning he would have people would come to his house to have meetings. He was already known as one of the giants of the generation as a very young guy. And they would come to the house and they would have to have meetings. The problem is that the house only had one room. Like there's one room. The whole house is one room. There's no like bedroom, bathroom, playroom, guest room, this room, that room, sometimes room, the room that you don't use, but just tell people you have a room. No, there's one room. The whole house is a room. You go into a play, it's a room. You have to have a meeting. You have kids. you have a wife. So what do they do? The wife and the kids would go under the table. The wife and the kids would sit under the table and he would have a meeting. To us, this sounds like a different world. It's far far far away from us. Us if it's not quiet and maybe the right temperature and the right attendance and everyone looks, we're not even showing up to the wedding. Not showing up to the meeting, not doing anything. Here we're having the dull is having meetings in one room with the kids and the wife and the baby and everything under the table and he's having a meeting like nothing happens. Everything's fine. That's the stories of our all the time and many of the sadikim went through this and our vad eventually to obviously the rest of his life became very very successful. Hashem, the head rabbi of Israel, published many, many books and uh put Sephardic Jews on the map. Before Raadya, Sepharic Jews were unfortunately very very in a very confused state, very far away in many cases from Hashem, very far away from each other. Today, Sepharic Judaism stands where it is predominantly because of And today in Israel, it's probably about 50/50 or even maybe even a little more Sphartic Jews than than Ashkenazi. Not that one is better than the other, but when modern Israel started, I read somewhere there was only 300 Sphartic Jews. 300 Sepharic Jews. 300 Sepharic Jews is a tiny little neighborhood. It's a building. But today it's millions. So lived poverty that we can't even imagine in a nightmare. And many many lived similar nightmares. But to them this was not only acceptable. This was in many cases welcomed because some of them actually even wanted this. They prayed for this. >> [music] [music]