Musar for Yoma 144:17

עדות ה' נאמנה אמר רבי חייא בר אבא נאמנה היא להעיד בלומדיה

Raba said to the Sages: I beseech you, do not inherit a double Gehinnom!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah, Aboth VI, indicates that acquisition of the Torah depends upon a frugal way of living, a reduction of the margin of joy to a minimum. The reward is to come in after-life. Such reward depends upon reaching the goal of study; fear of heaven. One who now engages in Torah-study without possessing fear of heaven, suffers in this world, wherein he denies himself pleasure for the sake of his study, as well as in the other world, where because he had no fear of heaven, reward will be denied, punishment inflicted.');">²⁵</span> R'Joshua B'Levi said: What is the meaning of the Scriptural verse: And this is the law which Moses set [before the children of Israel]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. IV, 44.');">²⁶</span>

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