More comments from the Rav.

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A man needs to learn with his wife, three hours of gemara a day.

And afterwards, he still has nine hours left.

And after that, he still has another 12 hours. He can play tennis, already, soccer, snooker.

He needs to learn three hours with his wife, and nine hours by himself.

Twelve hours remain – and everything depends upon this.

Afterwards, he can play table tennis, ping-pong – whatever you want, go and play it!

But the ikker, is that you should learn 12 hours [a day].

If a man doesn’t learn, he has no brain to ‘play’ with.

Also, if a person doesn’t learn, he becomes meshuggah (crazy), he becomes insane.

He can’t play ping-pong, and he can’t play anything else!

A non-Jew can.

But a Jew, can’t.

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Translated from Shivivei Or 443.