[Avodah] VeHaGita - Proof....sources and quotes

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:44:24PM +0200, Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
: He says that in fact there are two separate mitzvos of Torah study 1) To 
: learn all of the written and oral Torah 2) to learn twice a day...

3) To know what to do and how to live.

: There is further discussion of this Igros Moshe YD IV #36.8 page 229 and 
: #36.15 p233  He say that even one who learns regularly - but it is not 
: his prime focus in life - is not called a ben Torah.

Nu, so he'll have to go to shamayim as a ba'al chessed. IOW, is being a
"ben Torah" the sole ideal he should choose (Hobbes' choice) among?

The Rama's she'as hadechaq is necessary whether the person is neglecting
the possibility of kol hamarbeh or if he is relying on a bedi'eved. I
would want to see someone drill into the difference between a true
bedi'eved and something that is non-ideal but yotzei zain. Because I
could see choosing the latter for the sake of another mitzvah, whereas
one can't decide lechat-chilah to be yotzei bedi'eved.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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