[Avodah] R. Steinman and Niagra Falls

[JoshHoff at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/10/2008 3:12:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org writes:

They  urged him to look out the window also.? Rav Shteinman was learning 
gemara, and  he said, No. They later asked him, Why?? He responded that it was a 
sheilah as  to whether he could make a bracha on seeing Niagra Falls, and 
therefore, a  sheila as to whether he could interrupt his gemara  learning.




When I learned in the high school of Telshe in Cleveland many years ago,  our 
rebbe told us a story about his rebbe, one of the Telzer Rosh  HaYeshivas ( I 
think it was R.E.M. Bloch zt'l, but it may have been R. M,  Katz zt'l). The 
RY was going on a bus trip to another city,and he asked his  talmid to get him 
a small gemara to take along so he could learn on the trip.  His talmid asked 
why doesn't he just take it easy and look out the window? He  answered that he 
was too lazy. Our rebbe didn't explain what that meant, but I  assume it 
meant that it had become  so natural for him to learn that  it took a lot of  
effort for him  not to  learn.
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