Time for Torah: By Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Zt"l
Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת נח. Discussed: - What is the connection between the Mitzvah to build the Taivah and the Mitzvah to build the Mishkan, and how the function of Yeshivos…
Why is that? See, he first starts off by saying something which we've said on a number of occasions.
He says it like this: If someone would tell you that, you know, if you don't eat the best foods, and if you don't eat foods fit for a king, or nowadays, if you don't eat health food and buy food from health food stores, you're gonna die of starvation.
If someone would tell you such a statement, make such a statement, that would sound a little ridiculous.
Starvation and, uh, what people go through in, in Africa and in Asia when they have no food is really a very far cry from those people that are able to luxuriate and eat whatever they want.
There's a vast difference between saying, "I don't have the best of foods," and saying that, "I'm dying of starvation." What he calls ma'adanei malachim, the delicacies of kings.
To say that if you don't have the delicacies of kings, you're gonna die of starvation is an untrue and incorrect statement because of the difference.
He brings out a passage from Dovid HaMelech, where Dovid HaMelech says that by being driven out from the nachas Hashem, the opportunity to partake of Torah study, is the equivalent of being told to go worship idols.
Why is that? See, he first starts off by saying something which we've said on a number of occasions.
He says it like this: If someone would tell you that, you know, if you don't eat the best foods, and if you don't eat foods fit for a king, or nowadays, if you don't eat health food and buy food from health food stores, you're gonna die of starvation.
If someone would tell you such a statement, make such a statement, that would sound a little ridiculous.
Starvation and, uh, what people go through in, in Africa and in Asia when they have no food is really a very far cry from those people that are able to luxuriate and eat whatever they want.
There's a vast difference between saying, "I don't have the best of foods," and saying that, "I'm dying of starvation." What he calls ma'adanei malachim, the delicacies of kings.
To say that if you don't have the delicacies of kings, you're gonna die of starvation is an untrue and incorrect statement because of the difference.
He brings out a passage from Dovid HaMelech, where Dovid HaMelech says that by being driven out from the nachas Hashem, the opportunity to partake of Torah study, is the equivalent of being told to go worship idols.
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