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A Jewish Perspective on How to Vacation Properly | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 114 · The Torah Sparks Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, Arev Shabis Kadesh, Arev Sukis, what a wonderful time to be.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: And here we are, new topic, Tiul Vacations.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what the pellyous is something to tell us on what seems like every topic.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: And we haven't learnt about vacations yet, so here we are.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Gamzeyi Tzu B Enoch.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: This stems from the evil inclination inside a person.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Shabimosa kaites marbi ma'am luro saatmum began.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: In the days of the summer, people frequently feel like they need a relax, chillax themselves in the gardens.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Under blossoming trees or on the banks of rivers and streams.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Umarbim shamlachov lushtais, they eat there, they drink there, simchaula, and they're involved in frivolous activities.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Many are so completely drawn after the pleasures and the emptiness of this world.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: They even go out on these pleasure trips before davening in the morning to Hashem.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Meaning, they're only thinking about themselves and not about the real tahlis of life.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Again, assuming I don't know if he's gonna say this, let's see.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, if it's coming from the right, if vacation is not a vacation from Yiddishkite, it's a different story.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Some people view the vacation as, oh, I'm taking off from not just work, but from my yadas.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's where it goes wrong because Yiddishkite is literally 24-7.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: There is no vacation from that.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: A person has to be able to learn how to take a vacation, like a yidvishan.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, people run after this world.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: We just read that.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Chazar never hurt anyone.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um tephilo with siber babesakness, they forgo prayer with a minion in the show.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: And they they are involved in an abundance of food.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Fest, ad chi halai lo hai chakra yom until the day flows into the night.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: They're wasting away their precious time with emptiness.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: So call hevelarus, ruach, all of this is of futilities, there's many forbidden acts that stem from this behavior, Kashirha'imid Alamishmar, the Khal Sudos Mirayus, as a person who stands and watches any of these parties, um, they can see for with their own eyes that it doesn't lead to good.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: The evils follow after evil, meaning one thing leads to the next, like a domino effect of being succumbed to emptiness.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: So in the Gamhu Batil, there's another issue with these occasions when they're devoid of spirituality.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Shari Amur Bazaar, Kodash Usur, Lanu Lura's Dover Mesamecha Saleev, the Tsar says it's forbidden to gaze upon something, um something that has absolutely no element of spirituality, just to bring joy to the heart.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lack of of respect and honor for the Besam Mikdush.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: The Kvaryish Mk and the fact that we don't have a Besam Mikdush.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now that we're understanding that there's inherent dangers in this, so says the Paleoites, there there does exist cases, circumstances where it is permitted, and it's even considered a mitzvah to take a vacation.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: For example, if a person is uh sick or depressed, he he needs a pump me up.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, a lot of people today would be in this category where they just need to get out, they need to relax, they need to salax again, not a vacation from Yridskite, but just they they need to chill.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: In this case, says the Palayot, you could go once in 50 years.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: He means that like just once in a while.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're not going to the point is we're not supposed to go on vacation every other day.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Im Shnaim Oshlecha and Ashim Gavadichi, together with two or three happy friends, you should go with people who can be mechazik, you're making shamachim, liboshim kide shishka chatsba to a place that broadens your mind, to a place where you're you maybe you'll focus on the waterfall, and in that moment you'll forget about the melancholy that you've been experiencing.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you'll look upon that beautiful sunset, you know, and and you'll forget about the stress or things like that that can take it away.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: That would be okay.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: His mind will be calm at ease, and he'll be able to rededicate himself to rejuvenate, to come back to Torah.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Study, and then he's going to be able to understand and serve his high if serve uh the creator Hashem again with wholesomeness once he's back to his healthy self.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Ulam b'aifan shemai salashem sham, this has to be done where his actions are directed towards God.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Then hopefully Hashem will consider the vacation a mitzvah.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: As long as, of course, he's not involved in any sin um or forsaking of mitzos.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Just to wrap up here, Avaleshalem Shudavik Bashem Ba Alvaraba, a person who's truly spiritually intact, um, he's somebody who clings to Akurish Baruch with great love and passion.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yima's bikal eylah, he's gonna be repulsed by these things.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: He there's no greater, such a fascinating line.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: He says, There's no better relaxation, there's no better vacation, there's no greater pleasure than sitting in the study hall and learning Hashem's Tir.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: The same, the same place can be either an orchard for Torah scholars or it can be a jailhouse for for the wicked.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, get me out of here.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: Aval Misha no David Kokah Bashem Terku Lo Kwampam Litain Khilek, but a person who does not yet cling so strongly to Hashem, um, and he needs to be able to go out once in a while, that's okay.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Vlasas mat rutan yutzilkwa yutsu to do a little of what his um his his desires uh require of him with the intent of preserving his ultimate relationship with Hashem, that would be okay.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um this is something that's concealed, meaning a person only himself deep down can know where it's coming from.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um Hashem knows what you know, and so try to connect to what you know.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's not a coincidence that the way Hashkah has this Haksik learning program, this is the topic that we're learning as we enter into succis.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, succis, we go a little bit on a vacation, right?
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: We take a vacation from a house.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: And but part of the idea of the vacation is to rejuvenate, is to get back on track.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it it's it's it's to be able to appreciate that which we do have and to come back into regular life with it on a high.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we're about to go on a vacation, but on the succus, but it but but but ultimately realizing that this is actually where it's at, this embrace of a kurish bargo, this is where it's at, and we're meant to take this into it.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe like he said with the base madrash, somebody who's really close to Hashem, he realizes that the base madrash is the greatest relaxation, the base madrash is the greatest vacation.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so the the if if the the the sukkah itself is likened to the base hamikdash, you know, is there any greater base madrash than the base hamikdash?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, you could you could argue such that the base the sukhah is the base madrash, it is a base hamakdash, and the going in there that is the greatest vacation.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: We should get comfortable living in the embrace of Hashem.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: So that when we do have to go back to the to the real world, right?
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: We realize that no, this is actually the fake world.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: The real world is the embrace of Hashem, and to try to channel that and fuse our lives with that special warmth, that kadusha, that celebrity hamnusa, we should be Zahatha Kosher Samar, and wishing you all the best.