one needs to marry the daughter of a authentic Litvak Torah Scholar

In the Talmud Yerushalmi it is brought that every word of Torah is worth as much as all the other commandments. But to realize this truth is not always open to everyone. I for one, tasted the "taste of Torah". So I thought to devote myself to learning Torah always. But to do so clearly one needs to marry the daughter of a authentic Litvak Torah Scholar  [that goes by the Gra]

 The reason the sages recommend to marry the daughter of a Torah scholar is that daughters of amei haaretz [people ignorant of Torah] are hostile to Torah. They will do almost anything to stop their husbands from learning Torah. They might say it is "for parnasah", [they want their husbands to work],but that is just a cover story for public consumption. They really just do not want to see their husband sitting and learning Torah--even if they would already have plenty of money. 

In some cases however,  to marry a bat talmid chacham [daughter of a Torah scholar] is not possible.

Part of the reason is phony Torah scholars תלמידי חכמים שדיים יהודאיים Torah scholars from the Dark Side. So one might be offered a shiduch of the Dark Side. [Or a baalat mum, a girl with a hidden defect.] 

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 Even  though when I first got to Shar Yashuv [a great Litvak Yeshiva in NY], I did not have anything in mind except to learn Torah, once there and I got a taste of the greatness of Torah, I made it my goal to be sitting and learning Torah my whole life. Later events made that commitment to be difficult to keep. But I still believe in the greatness of that goal. [I had to go to NYU's Polytechnic Institute to learn Physics and thus the idea of sitting and learning Torah became impractical. But I imagine with enough commitment I might still have managed.] See the event with R. Yochanan and his friend that  decided to leave off learning Torah to go and make a living. R Yochanan heard the angels. One said to the other: Let us knock this wall over them [and kill them], since thy have decided to leave off learning Torah. The other said, "No. Leave them alone, because one of them will stick with it." R Yochanan heard, his friend did not.

A powerful lesson to be learned for sure. Still, I just was not able to sit and learn. The best I can say is that I consider Physics to be part of Torah based on Ibn Pakuda, the Rambam, even though clearly many [or most] Rishonim disagree.]  

I have tended to forget this important lesson of Rav Nahman so now when ever I got out I remind myself of it--to pay attention to the little hints.  [I totally forget where that is in the LeM but I vaguely think it is around vol I in the 60's,] 

There Rav Nahman says one should always remember that there is a next world and one way to do so is to be aware that God sends small hints every day to every person to remind him or her of what they need to understand. [But I noticed that for me, it might take a lot of hints until I get the idea.]

I have been looking at music files to share and here are a few  

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I hope to receive   the energy to go back and edit  these last two. But I thought to share them anyway. 

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I tried to defend the point of view of the Rambam concerning Aristotle.

 I had a conversation [with Sarah Chaya] in which I tried to defend the point of  view of the Rambam concerning Aristotle. My point was that even though the Rambam is  Neo Platonic [Plato, Plotinus, and Aristotle} there is a reason to look for modifications of that based on Kant and Fries. Mainly my point was that this the real world, the world of ideas  [not this world of shadows] is where real knowledge is. But to Kant that is where we have knowledge only within the conditions of possible experience. It is the idea of Fries that there is access even beyond that realm by means of immediate non intuitive knowledge. So we can have a relationship with God, but not by reason by by a different kind of knowledge not of reason, nor of feeling. A third kind. (The point is this is knowledge of God but not through reason nor any kind of sense perception or feelings.])

Of course we know that the Guide for the Perplexed was a scandal. No one liked the attitude of the Rambam towards a pagan philosopher. But the Ramban/Nahmanidess wrote an impassioned letter to the Baalai HaTosphot in France and Germany saying to leave the Rambam alone--even though the Ramban did not in fact agree with the Rambam about this issue. 

 No one I have ever tried to explain this to paid the slightest attention--but here I go again. The idea at the end of Laws of Shemita that, "when one who accepts on himself the yoke of Torah, the yoke of work is taken from him. " does not mean to make money by means of using Torah. It means that in some way God will provide. It is not a "heter" [license] to make Torah into a business.