[Avodah] Rav Shteinman and Niagra Falls

[Gershon Dubin]

<<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.>>

Lav davka a difference in hashkafa as you posit.  

If there's no beracha, then it's haposek mimishnaso ve'omer kama na'eh ilan zeh harei zeh mischayev benafsho (Avos 3:7).

If there is, there is a case to be made for a mitzva overes.

Gershon
gershon.dubin at juno.com



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