[Avodah] Rav Shteinman and Niagra Falls

[Zev Sero]

efpasik at aol.com wrote:
> 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 Niagara Falls, and therefore, a sheila as to whether he could 
> interrupt his gemara learning.

Maybe he just wants to avoid kaf hakela`.  Did that not occur to anybody?
Cheizu dehai `alma is not an unadulterated good.

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