This devar torah is for a zechut for moshe ben esther for a refuah shelema.
Hillel hazaken made one coin a day, half of it went to his yeshiva so he can learn.
Q 1.was the gaurd of the yeshiva really so mean that he didn’t allow hillel to go in and learn (because he was so poor and couldn’t afford to pay)
Q 2.how come when the rabbis found him sleeping on the roof the next morning the said “now we can be mechalel shabbat and remove him” why now? Aren’t u always allowed to be mechalel shabbat if its pikuach nefesh?
A- hillels time was after the romans and it was a very easy, peaceful time for the jews. The rabbis said there’s no misirut nefesh to learn now, therefore they made it be that in order to come and learn you have to pay a half a coin to learn. After they saw hillel on the roof they said we have accomplished what we were trying to! And they took away the cost to learn.
Ok I do not know if that made sense because I totally forgot I had it tonight and I forgot half of it lol this is what I remembered….hope u enjoyed!