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face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel via Avodah
<A>avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>Subject: [Avodah] Will Purim Be The Only
Yom Tov Left Standing After Moshiach Comes? Let's Take a Closer
Look<BR><BR><BR>>> ...We all study how Mordecai and<BR>Esther were
the heroes of Purim. The possible objections of members of the Sanhedrin has
been lost in the dustbins of history. Yes it would be nice if Joseph would have
been learning Torah all day instead of being viceroy to Pharoh but in the end he
saved the family and so Jewish history.<BR><BR>I am sure that even major gedolim
like R Yehudah haNasi "wasted" time on<BR>political leadership and not just pure
Torah matters. I remember a story of<BR>one of the RY of Telshe
(1950-1970s) lamented on the time he spent going<BR>around the world
collecting money for the yeshiva instead of just teaching<BR>Torah. Sure there
was a cost but he provided for many others to learn Torah. <<<BR><BR>Eli
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<DIV>One of my brothers found a tape after my father was niftar, a
tape of my father speaking. In it, my father z'l said that
congregants don't realize how much a rav sacrifices for them. Besides
obvious things like time, energy, family life, privacy and income, a shul
rav loses time and menucha for his own learning. My father said that
was the hardest of all for him, not having time to learn Torah. Of
course he was always teaching, preparing shiurim and so on, but that's not the
same.</DIV>
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<DIV>I felt sad when I heard that recording. What comforted me was that I
read or heard somewhere that whatever Torah learning a person is not
able to accomplish in this life because of his devotion to the klal and to
tzorchei tzibbur, is given to him in Olam Haba.</DIV>
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