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==The importance of earning a living== | ==The importance of earning a living== | ||
# Regardless of a person's stature, one must toil for his bread. This was a result of Adam's sin and the subsequent curse put on mankind | # Regardless of a person's stature, one must toil for his bread. This was a result of Adam's sin and the subsequent curse put on mankind.<ref>Bereshit 3:19</ref> One's degree of toil depends on their degree of closeness to HaShem.<REF>{{NoSource}}</REF> | ||
# One must live a Torah fulfilling life in the "way of the land".<ref> Berachot 35b</ref> | # One must live a Torah fulfilling life in the "way of the land".<ref> Berachot 35b</ref> | ||
# It is better to resort to embarrassing work in public than to rely on gifts from people for one's living.<REF>Pesachim 113a</REF> | # It is better to resort to embarrassing work in public than to rely on gifts from people for one's living.<REF>Pesachim 113a</REF> |