Comentário sobre Pirkei Avot 5:23

THE REWARD IS COMMENSURATE WITH THE SUFFERING. Rav: as much as one suffers in the learning of Torah and doing of commandments, so much will his reward be greater. This is the reward for the suffering and labor, for if one suffers and labors much the reward will be proportionally greater. But nobody knows the reward for the commandment itself, as the mishna says in 2:1—Maharal in Derech Chaim. See my comments there.

And Ben Hey Hey said [that] according to that which you are in pain with Torah will be your reward. And they said that only that which you study with exertion, labor and fear from the teacher will endure; but reading of enjoyment and leisure has no endurance to it and [so] no point in it. And they said in the explanation of his statement (Ecclesiastes 2:9), "even (af, which can also be understood as anger) my wisdom remained with me" - the wisdom that I studied with anger remained with me. And because of this, they commanded to place fear upon the students; and they said (Ketuvot 103b), "Throw fear upon the students."

Ben Bag Bag says, etc.: Since above it warns severely about Torah study and even until old age and hoary-headedness, and even if it causes great pain and it weakens his strength, he should not move from it; Ben Hey Hey comes to console a person and to speak to his heart, that he should not be concerned about his great pain, as According to the pain is the reward.

And this is about the reward for the pain and bother itself - that if it is great, its reward will be great. But [regarding] the reward for the [performance of the] commandments themselves, you do not know the gift of their reward, as we learned at the beginning of Chapter 2 - Derekh Chaim.

"According to the pain is the reward": According to the greatness of the pain, that you endure in the study of Torah and in the performance of the commandments, will your reward be great.

Introduction In the previous mishnah we learned that one must continuously study Torah. In our mishnah Ben He He adds that one must work hard at Torah study in order to gain the greater reward of true understanding.

Ben He He said: According to the labor is the reward. This might remind us of the modern saying, “no pain, no gain.” The difference between the two statements is that the mishnah refers to study whereas our modern saying refers to physical exercise. Wisdom which is acquired with great labor will last longer than that which is acquired through casual reading. We might experience this if we notice that things upon which we are tested are easier to remember than the casual reading we might do on our own.