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

[Alexander Seinfeld]

:: 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.

: I intentionally avoided stating it that confrontationally, but yes.

Forgive me, this may be a side issue to your main point about the 2
ways/reasons to learn, but I feel it should be clarified what you mean.

How do you understand the Shulchan Aruch - Orach Chaim 155-156 - go
immediately from davening to learning, make Torah your ikkar and malacha
your arai; minimize work to only what you need [Be¹er Heiteiv, Mishna
Berura] not moreŠ??

Not mainstream? Breaking with Chazal? It¹s a verbatim quotation from Gemara
Berachos 35b. And maybe related to Taanis 24b (Chanina ben Dosa and his
wife.)

Now, let¹s think sociologically for a moment. Why did the Mechaber choose to
state this halacha the way he does? It seems to me that in his time (as in
all times) there were Jews who were pulled to the needs and attractions of
parnasa and spending the vast majority of their time and energy on it and in
his view not in the proper balance. The fact that he has to state this
halacha implies that not everyone was behaving that way. So the fact that
not everyone behaves this way today is no proof whatsoever against the
halacha.

But anyone who wonders on what basis do some Orthodox Jews forsake full-time
jobs and toil in Torah should read the Beur Halacha on Siman 155.1 - ³Eis
lilmode² 

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