Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

Welcome to another episode of Nach Daily, with Mishlei, Perek 20. In this perek Shlomo Hamelech continues to describe the derech tova v’hara, the positive and negative paths of life. Those who are lazy and do not plow in the proper time will have nothing to harvest when they actually need to eat. The deeper meaning is that this world is the time to plow with Mitzvos, Torah and Tefilah. When we fail to do that, we’ll have nothing to “feed” our neshamas in Olam Habah when the time comes for us to reap the fruit of our labor. Verse 5 says, “Mayim amukim eitza b’lev ish, v’ish tefuna yid’lena - the counsel in man’s heart is deep, yet a man of insight draws it out.” Rashi explains that an insightful student can draw more from his rebbe’s mind. The Gr’a brings the Bereishis Rabbah to explain that this is like a very deep well with fresh and clear water that can't be reached by average means. One day a man of insight came and tied many ropes together until he was able to reach the water and draw from it. The