סביב רשעים יהלכון. When evil and darkness surrounds one, the advice is to speak only truth. And the truth has the power to save one from all darkness.
And one should spend as much time as possible talking with God in a place where no one else is and to pour out one's heart to God. But I think he must have considered this kind of private conversation with God as fulfilling this idea of praying to God with truth. prayer to God ought to be with fear and love and fiery excitement. But when one can't pray to God in such a way, then the thing is to pray to God simply from the simple truth in one's heart. [That is private conversation with God.]
This it is not ביטול תורה. That is it is something that is so worthwhile that one should spend all day on it. But if not all day then at least an hour a day. That is even though in theory one is supposed to learn Torah all the time and the only time one is allowed to interrupt his learning is when there is a mitzvah that cant be done by anyone else. And we know that the regular prayers are not able to push off learning Torah. That is a person who learns Torah all the time does not have to interrupt learning to pray. Still private conversation with God to be a kind of mitzvah that can't be done by others. T\
What you can see is that people can get into learning so much so as to loose their human heart. That is a famous stereotype about Litvaks, but it has some basis in truth. On one hand the Litvaks do have the only straightforward idea of what Torah is about. And they deserve immense credit for that. But they also need a little bit of the vitamins of prayer in order not to lose the human heart.
And one should spend as much time as possible talking with God in a place where no one else is and to pour out one's heart to God. But I think he must have considered this kind of private conversation with God as fulfilling this idea of praying to God with truth. prayer to God ought to be with fear and love and fiery excitement. But when one can't pray to God in such a way, then the thing is to pray to God simply from the simple truth in one's heart. [That is private conversation with God.]
This it is not ביטול תורה. That is it is something that is so worthwhile that one should spend all day on it. But if not all day then at least an hour a day. That is even though in theory one is supposed to learn Torah all the time and the only time one is allowed to interrupt his learning is when there is a mitzvah that cant be done by anyone else. And we know that the regular prayers are not able to push off learning Torah. That is a person who learns Torah all the time does not have to interrupt learning to pray. Still private conversation with God to be a kind of mitzvah that can't be done by others. T\
What you can see is that people can get into learning so much so as to loose their human heart. That is a famous stereotype about Litvaks, but it has some basis in truth. On one hand the Litvaks do have the only straightforward idea of what Torah is about. And they deserve immense credit for that. But they also need a little bit of the vitamins of prayer in order not to lose the human heart.
