[Avodah] Waiting to Daven Maariv on Shavuous

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:42:38 +0100
"Chana Luntz" <chana at kolsassoon.org.uk> wrote:

...

> I once had somebody tell me this was a male and female thing - this was
> after I told him that I was stuck in meetings at work until nearly midnight,
> and hence unable to have dinner, and then I was just too tired to eat, so
> instead I went to bed. And he said to me, only a woman would have done that,
> a man would have prioritised eating over sleeping.  I don't know if this is
> true or not, not having done anything approaching a scientific study, but
> certainly I, and others I know, will find that if it gets too late to eat,
> we pretty much can't.  Eating before Yom Tov (eg chocolate) actually helps,

Thanks for clearing this up!  But I note that in your original message,
you implied that you stay up all night learning, and that in Australia
you'd have a fairly productive nine hours of learning (between speeches
and "real" learning), so I infer that this exhaustion that inhibits
your appetite occurs even when your brain knows that it has "miles to go
before it sleeps?"

Yitzhak
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