{"id":38091,"date":"2018-08-18T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=38091"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:59:10","slug":"learning-and-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/learning-and-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning and Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[485,410,440],"acf":{"old_id":"38091","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38013,"related_cahpter":"26","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How is it possible to learn the Torah and say that it is ok for every Jew to spend his life only studying Torah?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the ideal that educators should place before their students&#8211;just to be students who continually study Torah or individuals who engage in a variety of professions? \u00a0What can one learn from our three forefathers on this topic?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A teacher in a school for Torah studies asked me whether he should encourage all his students to sit in the yeshiva day after day and engage in Torah study, for this is the highest value, or one should compromise with reality and say to the students that all professions are appropriate?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I answered him: \u00a0How is it possible to learn verses in the Torah and say to students that it is ok for every Jew to spend his life studying Torah? 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