From my Brother-in-Law who joined the workforce after learning in Yeshiva:
" I don't care how much you've learned, you do not REALLY appreciate Shabbos until you've been working the whole week". (Then its a true "Rest".)
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
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B"H
Indeed.
totally !!!
Your BiL at least now understands the difference between work and the rest of Shabbos. I still have students who in all seriousness put down learning in yeshiva as work experience on their resumes, and don't think I'm correct when I tell them it's not.
Just being in college has made me appreciate shabbos so much more. By Tuesday I'm thinking "only a few more days till Shabbos!"
Gotta disagree. I haven't worked an honest day in my life and Shabbos is still amazingly awesome.
BY: Word.
Anon. Yup
Prof K: Ididiotim.
Mak: College is also work...depends on where you go.
CIB: Here's the thing: You might think that Shaboos is awesome, good food etc but you do not appreicate it as a "Day of Rest" until you actually need to rest froma long week of work.
Gotta agree here
I start counting down the days till shabbos from Monday! While I enjoy my work, I absolutely NEED shabbos! If given a day off each week, I would choose friday b/c I also love preparing for shabbos!!!
there is definitely something very true about that... but a real yeshiva guy will respond with something like what does a baalebos know about shabbos? he is relieved shabbos is ehre so he can sleep? that is what shabbos is about?
Well, sleep IS a good thing.
Isn't it a Torah Commandment to work six days and then there's Shabbat?
MIM: Yup yup.
Mrs LFD: Wowee. You've been bitten by the blogging bug! Friday is ok as an off day, too much to do and not enough time to chill.
Rafi: Yes, Shabbos is a day of learning too etc but primarly as a day of rest and if ya aint doing anything strenuous, what kind of rest is that?
Muse: Agreed!
BY: YES YES!!! Esp since I'm not getting much of it.
I suppose that has something to do w/a bundle of joy?
Ashrecha.
The Ramba"m states that even a talmid hacham divides his time, for example, 9 hrs. of learning, 3 hrs. of work.
I think there are those out there who learn a super censored version of the Ramba"m, or just give it the ol' "WE don't paskin by the Ramba"m, nanny, nanny, nah!"
This might sound heretic, but the only day I work is shabbos. People don't make kiddushes and lunches of bar mitzvas, aufrufs, shabbos sheva brachos during the week. That's my business day. During the week I relax :-)
JacobDaJew: That is so true. For those that work, I'm counting babysitting as work, cause it really is physically draining, Shabbos comes as such a relaxing day, you wait a whole week for it! But then other times when I'm not working, then Shabbos is just too long of a day.
BY: Thank you
SP: So you have 6 days of rest eh?
BS: Babysitting is extremely hard work as I have been watching my son for the past few days. Oysh.
Long day indeed, esp in the summer.
This got me thinking, and I wound up writing my own post about it. I came from a totally separate direction than your brother-in-law. Someone who worked, but didn't observer Shabbos
http://jdmdad.blogspot.com/2008/09/transitioning-to-shabbos.html
I get to sleep on Shabbos. Then I can't sleep Motziah Shabbos, cause I slept to much on Shabbos, and I'm tired on Sunday either way...but naps on Shabbos just feel SOOOooo good, I don't care if I don't sleep later on.
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