[Avodah] Rav Shteinman and Niagra Falls

[Rich, Joel]

	Topical to the conversation here about Rav Hirsch, ztl, and the
Swiss Alps, within the past year or so, the Jewish Observer had an
article about a recent trip Rav Shteinman, shlita, made to various U.S.
cities.  As his plane was flying over Niagra Falls, his travelling
companions were looking out the window, and marveling at this great
natural wonder.  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.
	
	Two different hashkafas.
	
	Elliot Pasik 

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	Or perhaps just 2 different people's sensitivities - perhaps
natural wonders do not speak to R' Shteinman (and if they did he would
have looked)
	KT
	Joel Rich 

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