QUESTION
Would you equate the pursuit of the dollar to idol worship?
ANSWER
And I say no. I say it’s very important to pursue dollars. My personal opinion is everybody should be interested in making money.
Let me explain that to you.
Everyone should be ambitious to have a big family and therefore you must earn money to support a family. Tuition in the yeshivos is quite expensive. And even shoes and even rent; everything costs money.
And that’s why it’s a very big error for people who become idealistic loafers – some have big beards, some have kapotes, and they act like tzaddikim and they sit all day in the shtiebel. Most of the day is devarim bateilim; they tell stories or just loaf. A little bit they look in the sefer. But otherwise they don’t accomplish anything for themselves and don’t accomplish anything for Am Yisroel. And they’re disappointments. Their lives are wasted.
That’s why it’s important to learn a parnassah, to make a living and raise a family and make a nachas ruach leYotzro.
TAPE # 760 (October 1989)
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