On May 7, 1960, the law establishing a 7-hour workday for all workers in the Soviet Union was approved, and 6 hours for the most grueling jobs, reducing the workweek to 30 hours before 1964.
The reduction in working hours did not mean a reduction in wages; it simply aimed to ease the lives of workers and give them more hours of rest to spend time with their families.
I worked 60 hours a week on Wall St. That's 10 hours a day.
The idea that study will automatically lead to mitzvos only applies if, in the words of Rashi who cites Toras Cohanim, "You shall toil in the study of Torah in order to observe and fulfill [the commandments (Torath Kohanim 26:2)." A recent publication left that part out and went on to laud study. Thus it turned a verse which tells us that mitzvahs are so important that not keeping them will lead to severe punishment into the usual talk about study alone and that kind of talk actually minimizes observance of mitzvahs.
Q:
We say נותן לחם לכל בשר, that Hashem supplies food to everyone, so how do we understand that in many countries thousands of people are dying because they don’t have what to eat?
A:
Question: How is it that people are dying of starvation if Hakodosh Boruch Hu gives לחם לכל בשר?
If a man refuses to go to work, then we have no sympathy with him. It’s his own fault.
Now those places where people don’t have parnassah, they’re starving, you have to know in most cases there’s a very simple reason.
Let’s say the tribes in the Congo in Africa, you know what their occupation was? Not making a living. Their main occupation was fighting each other. It’s remarkable. All their poems, all their songs and traditions were fighting their neighbors, killing, killing each other. It’s remarkable, an ambition of killing. Instead of building up a civilization that would support them by the yegi’ah kapei’hem, they spend their lives on doing the most wicked things, on shfichas domim, so Hakodosh Boruch Hu said, “For them I’m going to send starvation. I’m going to send epidemics. They deserve everything because they’re criminals.”
In the olden days, people didn’t live for the purpose of murdering their neighbors. But the Indians in America, all the tribes lived for one purpose, to fight against each other. They used to capture victims from other tribes and tie them up to stakes and skin them alive. All kinds of achzoriyus and wickedness.
I saw a photograph of a group of young men in the South Sea Islands were making a war dance in preparation of attacking a neighborhood village and in their dance they were symbolizing what they would do when they would conquer the village, they’d kill the men and they’d rape the women and they’re doing it with such a hislahavus, chas v’shalom lehavdil like frum Jews dancing around the sefer Torah. That’s their whole simchah.
So Hashem said, “Such sheratzim? That's human beings? So a kilayah on them. They deserve everything.” These are the people who are the ones who are starving.
But in decent civilizations, people don’t starve. There’s sometimes a hungry person, yes there are exceptions, but in general the populations of civilized nations live on יגיע כפיהם כי תאכל and אשריך וטוב לך.
In most cases, it’s their own fault.
(September 1996)
Dale Partridge
@dalepartridge
Wokeness is institutionalized feminism.
Liberalism is politicized feminism.
Transgenderism is sexualized feminism.
Abortion is medicalized feminism.
Mass immigration is nationalized feminism.
Rebellious women are at the root of almost every modern evil.
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