3.3: On Learning and Studying
Torah learning is best combined with an occupation/profession, because the effort of both will keep one from sin. Torah study alone without work will, in the end, be nullified and lead to sin.
-Ethics of the Fathers, 2:2
He who occupies himself with the study of the law alone is as one who has no God.
-Rav Huna
Inferred from II Chronicles 15:3, ‘Avodah Zarah 17b
Ben Zoma says: Who is wise? The one who learns from every person, as it is said: “From all those who taught me I gained understanding” (Psalms 119:99).
-Ethics of the Fathers, 4:1