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On the closing daf of Massekhet Kiddushin we find the following teaching in the name of Rabbi Me’ir: a parent should teach his son a clean and simple profession and should pray to Him that all wealth and valuables belong, since every profession has both poverty and wealth.
The Mishna then quotes other opinions about the need to work and learn a profession, closing with Rabbi Nehorai who said that he put aside all worldly professions and taught his son only Torah.
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