Plus Pirkei Avos - The Ethics of Our Fathers. The Torah promises prosperity for the Bnei Yisrael if they will follow Hashem's commandments. However, if they fail to live up to the responsibility of being the Chosen People, then chilling punishments will result. The Torah details the harsh historical process that will fall upon them when Divine protection is removed. These punishments, whose purpose is to bring Yisrael to repent, will be in seven stages, each more severe than the last.
Constant activity is a blessing.
When someone is busy he feels fulfilled and healthy, but when he is idle, he looks for ways of killing time. He seeks amusement and entertainment to take his mind off the emptiness he feels. He becomes restless and bored and wants to travel, trying to make his life into a glamorous travelogue. These words, written by Rav Meir Simcha, the Ohr Somayach, in the early 1900s, are an uncanny prediction of the storm which was to engulf Europe years later. From the moment of Hashem's irreversible covenant with Avraham Avinu, the survival of the Jewish People becomes a natural imperative, no less than the rising of the sun or the flowing and ebbing of the tides.