Leisure

asked 4 years ago

Regarding leisure culture, meaning what is allowed and what is not allowed to do when I have free time, do I have to study Torah all the time, am I not allowed to take some rest or meet friends, etc., etc., wrote Rabbi Shimshon Pincus (Hod. in Rabbi Stav’s book Between Times)
While secular and ultra-Orthodox sit in one camp and both watch
In movies, except that it is a kosher-controlled film, strictly kosher,
And the second is not controlled prey in the sense of prey, although there is a category
Because finally we are together…
I don’t want to speak harshly, but we must know a fundamental rule.
Every act and every thing that can concern even a secular person, even if there is no
It is forbidden, for us it is like eating a pig’s prey, and this is not an exaggeration.
For example, trips. Where did we get this concept from? And do we have
A tradition from the Hatim Sofer who took his disciples to the Judean Desert?
True, there are differences, the secular trips are made in the city’s break-ins,
While the yeshiva boys walk separately, dressed in kippahs
And of course, we don’t forget to bless everything when we drink water from the water…
But ultimately, in these actions, we are with the secularists.
In the same camp, may God have mercy on him. The same applies to listening to the radio. Also
If it’s about strictly kosher broadcasts, etc., etc.

In short, he claims that the world of material pleasures essentially contradicts the world of Torah. I’m a little discouraged by this and I feel trapped in a world where all I’m allowed to do when I have time is study. What do you think about that?

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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago

I think not. There is a reasonable dosage, but a person is allowed to enjoy it. In fact, the Gemara cites things on the subject (R”l who wept on the day of his death for not enjoying tzafichit, and indeed there are already moralistic excuses for this). I have an article here regarding leisure time: