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Time is the Most Precious Commodity | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 140 · The Torah Sparks Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Alright Hevra, here we are, continuing in our Peleoites, the section of Yeshiva.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: We're learning about the importance of not wasting time in life, says the Peleoitz Vahol Altemishtak in Kama Blaimbaam Shain Lemchanos.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many people who they don't have a store that requires their attention.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: They they're right, they're not involved in a a business that requires so much of them.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yet even though they still spend their whole day going from this store to that store, they gamchaikranos, and they're part of those who sit on the street corners.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: How many terrible things come from this?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a terrible thing because Bing Mivatal Tara is compared to the three cardinal sins.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: They think, hey, listen, it's only for the big Torah scholars.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're the ones who are supposed to be secluded in the in the base magistrah.
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I going to do in the in the base majors?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who am I?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a nothing.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: He thinks that him being in a base major, he feels like he's locked in a jail.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe once in a yeival, he'll go and sit there for an hour or two.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: When he does go, it's so hard for him, he runs away like a child who runs out to recess.
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  SPEAKER_00: How insulting is this to the Torah?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: How this is such an insult to this Torah because a person is holding the Torah in a much less esteem than his business, than monetary gain, or then dwelling in the corners.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Doing this, spending our time focused and being in the yeshiva, in the base medrish, studying Torah, this is not like a Dvarchasidas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not some practice of the pious.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a straightforward halocha.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: A person has no permission to sit idle in life even for a moment.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Even if a person does learn a lot, even still, even him, he's going to be held accountable.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's going to be held accountable on the time that they spent and what they did.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, a person has to be normal about it and healthy about it.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: It could be for a person to, you know, watch a sports game or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: That could be something that's not battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be for another guy, it is.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: So it all it all depends.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when you're learning and you see your chabrus and you just pick me up and you end up talking about something to give and it's not about the ties that you're learning, that's not necessarily bital, a tyra.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Meaning it has to be it's kafi the moment, it's kifi the person, it's kafi all the circumstances at the time.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: But either way, globally, meaning more broadly speaking, yeah, a person's never supposed to quote unquote waste his time and throw his time away.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's the most precious commodity that we have.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: The khapelit is saying, Be strong, claw you straighten.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: For the sake of Hashem's glory of an Achal, Nevish Nisham, don't waste your precious time.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: If there are Torah scholars in your city, Yayli Khes Al Khacham, Bachaleshu, Yeshabatal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whenever you're free, go learn with them.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: Learn things that you don't know before, VM Tamachakim, but you're Yeshabad Vyatim Kinata love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if there is no Tamikachim city, it's still not an excuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go learn yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Learn something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And keep reviewing it until again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remain enthusiastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until this becomes your um nature and your custom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you do it, the more you do it, the more sweet and pleasant it will be.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let's say a person doesn't possess the abilities to learn.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: The Khaizer calling Pasukas Lotan Timnah.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: And the entire day he r he repeats the simple pasak in Varacious that says, the Lotan sister was Timnah.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: We were going to reward him, meaning heaven rewards him as if he immersed himself in the difficult and complex sugyas of Nagam and Oyolos.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: How amazing the da'aka.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shikavarkuliyama Yodidah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone knows this.
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  SPEAKER_00: People know what we've just discussed over the last two days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they know what Khazal teaches about not wasting time and studying in the yeshiva.
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  SPEAKER_00: But who can assure the people that will take this message to heart, to love Hashem, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And to listen to the Dis Khachamin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to put a stop to their their otherwise negative practices that they've been doing until now.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says the palate, because when a person does this and is able to leave that old self behind, is able to move on and think forward progress, forward thinking, and embrace this life of goodness, a life of I'm not wasting time, of li a life of realizing that time is the precious commodity.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to spend my time learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to jump from this thing to that thing, but I'm going to be grounded in this.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: That the yeshiva is the ikuva.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: I need it in my life.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: So then this way a person will merit goodness, he will merit to live, and merit to shame, he will merit a life and the world to come.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Wishing you all the best.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful day.