What is Ameilus BaTorah?

Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer series where we try to answer very complicated difficult questions in a very short period of time by giving a relatively shallow answer. Anonymous asks, "What is a mealis?" Ais, how many have we had? We learned. Why will all of these clawless, these terrible curses take place? Not because you didn't learn Torah. You weren't. And the way this is usually described as you're sitting there with the sweat pouring down your face. No, you're just sitting back and learning. Can I have a cup of coffee? Sit back. Relax. You know, there's an excuse for me to have my coffee. Does that mean that sweat has to start dripping onto the pages of the s I'm learning because I'm working so hard? So, Hebrew is a great language. When I say Hebrew, I mean lashes. Hebrew if is basically English with a bad accent. Half the words are all English. minimum maximum uh individual poet that's point you know uh coalitzia I I don't even know I said to an Israeli why do you even keep a language anymore just switch to English you know there's no hope for Hebrew and he goes optimisti but anyway but be that as it may there are a lot of words in Hebrew for work there's aoda that's what we normally see think of as labor. If any of you had a good Zionist education like I did when I was a kid, Oh yeah, the pioneer is for work. Work is for the pioneer. There's well, one of the words for work is um now obviously is different than other words. What is what kind of work is says the Garulad? A person was created for. So maybe you think it means it brings the puzz. So maybe you think it means so says the puzzy. So what were the two havas? Maybe I was put into this world to dig a ditch. So I heard Kushalki explain it once. Ammo means labor of love. Labor of love. And he didn't say this but to me it's positu zubanu. This is our children. Children are a lot of work but it's not necessarily physical effort. It's mostly having your heart ripped out every single day. It's all the worries and this and the things that go on with that and all this the the effort that goes. But uh the the um it's it's it's a labor of love. When I used teaching a you know so they would say in a class they they'd ask somebody says what's your parents greatest source of pleasure says me. Says and what's your parents greatest source of pain? Says me. One time I was in a class they said to this girl what's your parents greatest source of pleasure? Says me. And what's your parents' greatest source of pain? My brother. But people have children because it's a labor of love because we're developing something. Um is your life work. It doesn't matter how hard it is. There are people who work at a job eight hours a day, but they have a hobby and that's what their um is. They're building a ship inside of a bottle. What they're doing, but that's their um it gives their life meaning. So says the Gar, maybe we were created to do creative things, not a voda. It's another word for work, creative work, um, art, music. Says, "No, it's deport." He says, "Okay, maybe we're supposed to talk about ideas. Maybe we should become a a commentator. Maybe we should have a podcast. Just sit and talk about stuff." says, "No, it's it means that when you learn Torah, it's your point of fulfillment." There are people who learn Torah because they're supposed to learn Torah, but they don't enjoy it. It's not it's not exciting to them. And if that happens, eventually they'll stop learning. I've told the story in the past of Varon Cutler who was raising money to start the lake with yeshiva and this balabos was helping him raise the money. So they come home at night and he sits down and uh opens up the newspaper. Says to him, "Why don't you open the Gumar?" He says, "Don't worry, Rebby. I have my Mahaba. I'm helping you raise money for yeshiva." He says, "I'm not talking about Mahaba. I'm talking about Maza. The learning should be it should be your fulfillment. That's the secret to it. It's got to have that level where there's an enjoyment. I've told this story but when I was teaching in or Davidid so uh I was speaking to one of the other and one of his guys came up to ask him a question and uh after he answered it I went back to what I was saying and he says no no watch and he goes back to his desk and he does like a little dance before he sits down I can't do it he was from LA you think of these moves you And he looked at me and said, "That's the sim everyone should get when they get an answer to a question in learning. That's we should all be to that we were created to have fulfillment in." This has been Davidski with a question and answer series.