[Avodah] What are the main mitzvos to focus on?

Marty Bluke marty.bluke at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 01:10:14 PST 2017


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:11:31PM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
> : The last daf in Makos (24a) states that the Neviim took the 613 mitzvos
> and
> : reduced them to a smaller set for people to focus on.
>
> : ...
>
> : The mitzva of learning Torah which we understand to be the most important
> : and fundamental mitzva does not appear in these lists....
>
> I think the "we" in your sentence are simply following a hashkafah which
> isn't majority opinion.
> ...
> So, who amongst Chazal really does make learning the central goal of a
> Jewish man's life?
>
> ...
> This notion that learning is the ends rather than a central part of
> the means is arguably idiosyncratic. It is far easier to argue that the
> central mitzvah is to emulate the Meitiv and bring His Tov to others.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha


So basically you are saying that the current Charedi hashkafa/lifestyle of
Torah only and Torah learning being the ultimate purpose of life is not a
majority opinion in Chazal and in fact you can't find anyone among Chazal
who says this.
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