[Avodah] VeHaGita

[Shoshana L. Boublil]

> RSB: Who was it that said that saying Shma in the morning and Shma in the
> evening is sufficient to be Yotzeh "Vehagita Bo Yomam VaLayla"?  Last I
> checked, it was in the G'mara...


SBA 
> That is a bedieved - and not lekatchileh.


Proof?

(and please, not b/c this is what is done by many today, but rather sources and quotes).

Remember that Yehoshua was given this Tzivuy first hand, and he understood it to mean that he was supposed to lead the Nation -- into war and settling Israel.  He definitely did not believe that it meant that MiLChatChilla he was supposed to sit all day in the Yeshiva.

Rather, that by doing Hashem's will, Yishuv Ha'Aretz and Mitzvot HaTeluYot Ba etc., he was fulfilling this command.

Shoshana L. Boublil