Liturgy zu Jeschijahu 40:31

Rabbi Meir says, "A person should always teach his son a clean and easy profession, and he should pray to the One to whom wealth and possessions belong, as there is no profession which does not have in it poverty and wealth. For poverty is not due to one's profession, and wealth is not due to one's profession, rather, it is all according to one's merit." Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, "Have you seen in all your days a beast or fowl that has a profession? [Yet] they sustain themselves without trouble. And weren't they created solely to serve me, and I was created to serve my Master. Isn't it logical, then, that I should be able to sustain myself without trouble? However, I my actions were bad, and I deprived myself of my sustenance."The mishna taught that Rabbi Nehorai says: I set aside all the trades and I teach my son only Torah. It is taught in the Tosefta (5:14): Rabbi Nehorai says: I set aside all the trades in the world, and I teach my son only Torah, as all other trades serve one only in the days of his youth, when he has enough strength to work, but in the days of his old age, behold, he is left to lie in hunger. But Torah is not like this: It serves a person in the time of his youth and provides him with a future and hope in the time of his old age. With regard to the time of his youth, what does it say about a Torah scholar? “But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength” (Isaiah 40:31). With regard to the time of his old age, what does it say? “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be full of sap and richness” (Psalms 92:15).

My legs have virtually buckled and they have fallen [from the path of God] because I became jealous of the mockers of Torah who distort the proper ways. Why should there not be destruction of the supremacy of those who band against God. When this happens, those who trust in Adonoy will obtain renewed strength and grow wings like eagles.⁴See Radak Isaiah 40,31.

My legs have virtually buckled and they have fallen [from the path of God] because I became jealous of the mockers of Torah who distort the proper ways. Why should there not be destruction of the supremacy of those who band against God. When this happens, those who trust in Adonoy will obtain renewed strength and grow wings like eagles.⁴See Radak Isaiah 40,31.

and grow wings like eagles.⁴See Radak Isaiah 40,31.