In the video: Rabbi Pinto's remarks (PR)
The educational path of Rebbe Rabbi Josiah Pinto became popular in the Jewish world. At its center, Rabbi Pinto advocates a method that there is no black and white, but that each and every one has his own unique role, and each one has the special correction for which he came into the world.
In his last lesson, Rabbi Pinto noted that in Jewish history there were great Jewish scholars who worked for a living, such as Rabbi Chaim ben Atar who was a goldsmith, Rabbi Yochanan the cobbler, Rabbi Yitzchak the blacksmith - and other great tzaddikim who worked for a living along with diligence in Torah.
"It is dependent and changing, and every person has to behave according to his soul," added Rabbi Pinto, "There is a person whose greatness is to be a Torah scholar in halacha. There is a person in the Talmud, there is a person in morality, there is a person in all Torah subjects."
Rabbi Pinto likened this to "one who sends his son – as opposed to – to become an accountant or a lawyer or something else. Everyone should know what his essence is. One should be a doctor and sanctify heaven there, one should be a lawyer and sanctify heaven there, one should be completely detached and sit in a beit midrash. But to study Torah and be embittered, and to embitter everyone and to make the house miserable and to embitter the woman that the house will be a disgruntled house? This is not allowed. Because then disgruntled children will grow up in his home and children who will later fall into bad places. It's not good."
"You have to be smart. A wise man is better than a prophet. A person needs to have a rabbi instruct him how to act and how to behave. The rabbi's job is to understand the essence of the soul and to direct. And it is man's duty to do exactly what his Rabbi tells him, not approximately. Because value has no value," Rabbi Pinto added.
David Berger, in collaboration with Shova Israel
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