Dec. 5, 2023

Unyielding Commitment: How a Football Game during a Shidduch Date Illuminates Our Connection to the Torah

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Season 6

Have you ever been on a date where you felt you couldn't escape something? Join us as we recount an amusing story from a fellow Chabura member who felt precisely that, thanks to an ever-present football game during his Shidduch date at Topgolf. His observations lead to a thought-provoking analogy, likening the football game's constant presence to our commitment to the Torah. 

We take you through a riveting comparison, demonstrating how our engagement with the Torah should be as constant as the big-screen football game at Topgolf. With this anecdote, we explore how developing a love for Torah study is rewarded, encouraging us to always keep it in our minds and on our lips. We're also unpacking how this engagement is a testament to our love for the Torah, bringing new insights into the concept of perpetual connection with our faith. Come along on this enlightening journey to discover how a football game at a golf venue can bring about a deeper understanding of our commitment to Torah study.

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Topgolf, the premier driving range and golf venue, has become a very popular makom for individuals in Shedochim.

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To go on a Shedoch date, with its peaceful and conversation-promoting booths to the menu of a sort of drinks and a fun activity, makes for a nice Shedoch date.

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Go team top golf.

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But recently a fellow who learns in the Chabura that I'm in came back from a Shedoch date with an interesting take and observation about this top golf electronically tracked golf ball venue.

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He said I'm not a big sports guy but hey, I'll do some golf.

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He went out to say that golf isn't even a sport, which I took strong issue with.

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The beat as it may, we moved on and he said I don't like football but when I got up taking my 7 iron to go as a pendulum and take a clean swing with this golf club hitting like a beautiful sweet spot on the golf ball, I noticed that deep in the outfield of this driving range was a 100 foot screen showing the Sunday afternoon football game.

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But he took issue with that, not wanting to be distracted, look inattentive or preoccupied.

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You wish they would turn it off, but people are watching it.

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When he turned away to go put the club back and put the score in, he noticed that on the tablet, the computer of sorts, was also showing the football game.

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And when he tried to escape from the football game not from the date, but when he went to the restroom he further noticed that the football game was being shown in the stalls in the man's restroom.

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People seemingly didn't want to miss even a second of this game.

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Don't know which game it even was, but like football addicts or something of the like.

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But the take away was analogously, we are commanded in La Havdele to separate Kodesh from Chol, that lo yamash hathayra, saifur hathayra hazeh mi pihah, the Torah should never leave our lips.

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The hegisa by Yomav alayla, to be obsessive about our Torah study, to ceaselessly keep it in our hands and literally on our mouths.

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Sometimes it seems impossible and practical and it's only from the great ones, but the practical muster is that I guess, if you really do love something and you find a way to have it with you in the bathroom, top golf in your quiet locations lo yamash hathayra, hafupal hazeh mi pihah was, I guess, what they would say.

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So the encouraging thing here is that if we can develop a taste and a love for Torah study, for Talmud Taira's Kenege Kulam, even if you learn just to know, you're going to get reward.

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If you know, or you want to learn, just so you can know how to be a holistically following Jew, I think good for you.

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That still is allowed and encouraged.

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If top golf can keep the games being shown for the football addicts at every little nook and cranny of their golf venues, well, maybe we can strive to be more like that Over addicted Torah study fellow who brings his Mishnias with him in the streets, brings it with him to the doctor's office, because when you really love something, you really never want it to leave your lips.