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Thank You Hashem Vs. Just Learn Torah - Is There a 3rd Option?

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Says Abba bar Abba Nel. These shleimim. I love that terminology when referring to the Tana'im. In other words, the ultimate You know, there's a big big machlokes between gedolei haposkim, what's the right mahalach in life? Is the right mahalach in life just learn Torah? Or is the right mahalach in life thank you Hashem? Right? The the two two streams of of Jewish practice is the is it just learn Torah thank you Hashem? And the answer is the model of ideal Jewish observance is to be a shalem. Shalem means that one is steeped in learning, in scholarship, complemented by yiras shamayim, complemented by deveikus to Hashem, complemented by middos tovos. What do you call that? You don't call it just learn Torah. You don't call it thank you Hashem. You call it shleimus. Shleimus. Anyway, don't tell anybody I said that.