Pirkei Avot 3:2 speaks about the kedusha that can be placed between two individuals who enjoy a meal
together and discuss Divrei Torah (learning). On the other hand, the Mishnah
discusses the stringency of avoiding Torah discussion while eating and says it
is as if these two people are in a Moshav
Letzim (a place where people sit and waste away their life by doing aimless
things different from serving Hashem).
Sidenote: there is a common factor that people believing
serving Hashem has to be by prayer or learning Torah. This is completely false.
The essence of Judaism is NOT to constantly learn Torah and avoiding daily
activities, rather the essence of Torah is bringing Hashem into everything we
do. For example, if someone is eating they should have the intention they are
eating to be healthy people and avoid hospitals so they will have time to
greaten Torah study in the world, to continue doing Hessed and Mitzvot, to
continue providing for their wife and children, etc.
What can we learn from this Mishnah? Maybe Hashem is
teaching us that an individual has the POWER to decide what to do with their
daily events. Every single Jew has enormous strength to influence the world and
by moving their efforts to focus on Torah related matters. From one point these
two people in the Mishnah are hanging out and eating and are called Moshav Letzim (which is a really
degradeable phrase to call people in the Torah world) and from another point
you can make the table filled with tahara
(purity) by filling it with Torah.
We clearly see from here that our Kedusha and state of
spirituality is up to us and the people we associate ourselves with. Be’ezrat
Hashem may we always continue to rise spiritually and understand we can turn
any impure action and event to a real connection with Hashem!
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