How important is physical exercise, and how should one go about doing it?
ANSWER:
The Rambam says physical exercise is important. How to go about doing it? There are various ways. If you have time, I would suggest you should walk every day, fast, at least a half hour. Not at nighttime in lonesome streets. If you're able to walk a half hour fast, maybe more, and think some of these ideas that we are talking about today, so you won't be wasting time, you'll be thinking in avodas Hashem at the same time.
Walking gives the whole body a certain amount of exertion, and it gives you more muscular power, it helps your digestion, elimination; fresh air is very good for you. So I propose walking, however there may be other ways too, but exercise is important, no question about it.
Adam l'amal youlod, man was created to work, not to sit, sitting is not healthy. The Gemara says even when you're learning all day long, shlish b'yeshiva, a third siting, shlish b'amida, a third standing, and shlish b'halicha, a third walking.
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