Your Questions about Aliyah, AI, Army and more!

From Shtark Tank with Yaakov Wolff by Yaakov Wolff.

• Published: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:10:00 GMT
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This week on Shtark Tank, we’re opening the mailbag to dive into the conversations, questions, and insights sparked by our recent episodes. We explore what it really means to be an eved Hashem , a professional , and a family man in a fast-paced world.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The "Millstone" of Marriage: Does our Avodas Hashem fundamentally change once we have families? We look at the Gemara in Kiddushin about learning before vs. after marriage.

  
  

• Work as a "Calling": Is the idea of self-fulfillment at work a modern invention? We trace the sources from the Chovas HaLevavos to modern corporate culture.

  
  

• Savoring the Steak: Why we should treat a line of Gemara like a juicy steak and how to handle the stress of "not learning enough" in a vast sea of Torah.

  
  

• Torah as an Antidote: A deep dive into the Netziv on why the Torah critiques Yosef’s beauty and how geshmak learning is the ultimate protection against the yetzer hara.

  
  

• The AI Future: If AI takes over our jobs, will we actually have the focus to "study God" all day?

• The Aliyah Struggle: Facing the "rational" vs. "emotional" challenges of making the move to Israel.

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