And from one's blessings it can be discerned whether or
not he is a Torah scholar. How so? Rebbi says (if in the zimun blessing he
says) "B'Tuvo" (Blessed is He of whose we have eaten and through
whose goodness we live), he is a Talmid Chocham. (But if he says
"U'MiTuvu" (and from whose goodness we live) he is an ignoramus.
The Ben haYehoyada writes that a Talmid Chocham is happy
with his lot in life and has restrained material needs, focusing on his study
of Torah. G-d provides what we need. Therefore, by definition what we are given
is what we require; thus for him B'Tuvo represents complete good. By contrast
the ignoramus is focused on his material wants; when he is given a hundred, he
desires two hundred. "MiTuvo" is as Rashi comments a restrictive description.
"From" implies less than all. He is focused on what he does not have,
rather than what he does have.
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