Should You Only Learn Torah Or Should You Also Work (Amazing Story About A True Believer)
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0:16Now, the Rambam writes specifically that if a person is going to work, he has to learn Torah at least as much as he works. So, let's say if he works eight hours a day, he has to learn Torah eight hours a day. If he works two hours a day, he has to learn Torah at least two hours a day. Obviously, he should learn much more and not waste his time. But the point is, the Rambam says you have to work. But if you have the emunah of Shevet HaLevi, if you have the emunah of the people that literally believe that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to provide everything, you don't need to work; you only need to study. But you cannot be one of these people that studies, studies all day, but then stops studying to go knock on doors: "Can I have five dollars?" Can I have $10? Can I have 25 cents? You cannot do that. That's Chillul Hashem, the Rambam says. If you're going to study all day and you have emunah that the parnassah is going to arrive all the way to your house, chazak u'baruch, perfect. But if you're going to study until you run out of money,
1:17and then you're gonna go become the burden of the public, which you're not allowed to do, the Rambam says. That's Chillul Hashem. Because that doesn't mean you don't have Emunah; you just don't want to work. So what does it mean, tachlis, bottom line? You have to work and you have to toil based on how much Emunah you have, how much Bitachon you have that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will provide for you. If you believe 100% that Hashem will provide for you, you can study Torah all day and all night. The parnassah, and even wealth, will arrive at your door without you having to work for UPS or some company. But if you don't have that emunah, could you please move the bottles and let them sit in the front so they don't have to jump over? Just move that. Put that between your legs, please, to free up those two seats, please. If you have the emunah in HaKadosh Baruch Hu, 100%, then you don't work; you study Torah. If your emunah is 50%, then you work 50% and learn Torah 50%. So it's all based on who and what you are.
2:32Most people do not have a hundred percent emunah. Most people do not have a hundred percent emunah or anything close to it. So they need to work, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu likes the fact that they're working. Why? Because if you don't work, then what are you gonna do? He's gonna sit there and just, you know, count the flies around you. What are you gonna do all day? If you're gonna study Torah, that's good. That's working. But what kind of work is it? So the point is, it's all based on how much emunah you have, whether you believe the parnassah will come. And that's actually relevant to everything, including a zivug. There's one tzaddik in Monsey who studied a lot, literally day and night. He went into an attic for five years without leaving—five years, didn't leave the attic. Once a day, someone would come and give him a meal and leave. One day, after five years, his rabbi told him, "Listen, I like that you're learning, chazak u'baruch, good for you, but you need to go find a zivug. You need to go find a wife." This tzaddik said, "Rabbi, I can't leave the books. I love the books. If Hashem wants me to get married, He's going to send my zivug to the house, to the attic. He's going to send it."
3:43Rabbi says if you believe it, it's gonna happen. If you believe it's gonna happen, but you truly believe — not just saying it because you want to check a box — you believe it, it's gonna happen. So he continued studying day and night, day and night, day and night. One day, somebody knocks on the door. "Hello? Hello?" He is surprised as he opens the attic door. He is used to one knock a day for the meal, but this is a second knock, which is a big surprise, as he never has visitors. Yes, he sees a nice young lady. He says, "Yes." He goes, "Are you Rabbi so-and-so?" "No, no, I'm sorry, I'm not." "Oh, okay, I'm sorry, do you know where he lives?" "Yeah, he lives down the street." "Oh, okay, okay, thank you." And as she starts walking away, he goes, "Wait, wait, hold on a second, before you leave." Can I talk to you for a second? She's not just talking to strange men. She's, yes, like, you know, walking away. She's a little scared. Who's this guy? I went to the wrong person. What do you want to talk to me about? It's not a secular world where we're going to go to a bar. What are we going to do? She says, listen, I've been here in this attic, learning Torah nonstop for six years. You're the first woman I've seen in six years. And I just want to ask, maybe HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent you to me. Is there any chance
4:57that you're looking for a husband? And she says, that's what I was going to see the Rabbi for, to hopefully find me a zivug. To find me a zivug, to find me a husband. I need a husband, and I want a husband; I want to learn Torah. They got married. They got married. Why? HaKadosh Baruch Hu will send it to your door, if you believe. If you're a faker, faker, faker. But this, Rabotai Yekarim, is a true story. And there are many stories like it. Next question. Yes.
