Chasidut for Eruvin 5:19
הכא נמי אי קלשת הויא לה קורה הניטלת ברוח אלא על כרחך נעשו כשפודין של מתכת הכא נמי על כרחך נעשית צילתה מרובה מחמתה
- The fact, however, is that since [they are] valuable people talk about them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it has a voice', and the public are consequently aware of their existence, a reason which is inapplicable, of course, to a sukkah.');"><sup>43</sup></span> If part of [the thickness of] the cross-beam<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At the entrance of an alley.');"><sup>44</sup></span> was within twenty cubits<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the ground. lfx');"><sup>45</sup></span>
Chovat HaTalmidim
We also stand to gain that even the lads that are not distancing themselves from us so much and are not turning into enemies - but rather only disregarding their divine service from laziness and neglect - will also be stimulated to redouble their service. As the Gemara says (Eruvin 3a), "A stew belonging to two people will be neither hot nor cold" - it is a law of the human psyche that when one has on whom to rely, he will be neglectful and depend on the other. And so too a lad - even if he does not resist - will be neglectful by thinking that his father or teacher will do everything for him. But when he understands that the obligation is upon him and that only he himself is the guide and educator, he will make efforts and not be neglectful.
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