[Avodah] Teaching your child a trade

[Rich, Joel]

Does this mitzvah apply to a father who has enough wealth that his child will never need to work?
In other words, is the reason for the mitzvah so that the child may live, or is the reason so that the child (who is not a lamdan, let's say for the sake of discussion) will have something meaningful to do?
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1. kiddushin 239 a/b seems to imply not  IF you could be sure the$ would last for life (so never would have to steal) - which imho can't guarantee.   And all the exceptions discussed seem to be for full time learnin
2.psulei eidut sanhedrin 24b include dice players - r sheishet says because not involved in yishuvo shel olam.  A good father will consider this imho

Kt
Joel rich
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