Reply To: Yom Kippur thoughts

there’s a mishna in Keilim that tells of the Halachic differences between fish and animals, if it’s tamei or tohor, etc. The mishna asks what about a kelev sh’bayom (i think it is a seal), is it to be considered a fish or an animal? So the mishna says it’s to be treated like an animal “sheborachas l’yabosho”(it runs to the dry land). So the question is, so what? it also swims in the water?! So the tosfos Y.T. explains there because it says it RUNS to the land. We see that it’s she’ifah, it’s main area, it’s comfort zone is to be on the land more than the water.

I heard from my Rosh Yeshiva once, that a person can work a WHOLE day, but when it comes to his one hour night seder, he RUNS – that shows where his she’ifah is. He might be a businessman 15 hrs, but his goal, his comfort zone is in the Bais HaMedrash learning torah. that taiches up who he really is.