When you’re ready to plan your day Learn from Yehuda the proper ___! Plan your Torah learning first! Then you’ll learn it with much ____!
וְאֶת־יְהוּדָה שָלַח לְפָנָיו אֶל־יוֹסֵף לְהוֹרֹת לְפָנָיו גּשְנָה And Yaakov sent Yehuda ahead of him to Goshen, to teach (Bereishis 46:28) As this verse is letting us know, on his great move to Mitzrayim, Yaakov Avinu sent Yehuda ahead of him. What was the purpose for this? Rashi explains that Yaakov Avinu wanted Yehuda to establish a Beis Midrash in Mitzrayim before the family would arrive there. From that Beis Midrash, the Torah’s halachic/guiding teaching would emanate. As such the verse says: לְהוֹרֹת - to teach (related to the word הוראה - a halachic/guiding teaching).
The lesson from here is for us as well. Yaakov Avinu taught that the formation of the structure for Torah study that guides our lives needs to be fixed in first. And then, everything else. When you open your daily planner and plan your tomorrow’s busy schedule, “send Yehuda ahead first, to teach” - first, schedule in the sedorim for learning, and then everything else.
