[Avodah] self esteem

[Yosef Skolnick]

Just because learning comes easily to someone doesn't mean they are
interested in learning... What often impresses is me are the illuyim that
decide to spend their lives learning.  There are plenty of other professions
or lines of research that they could have chosen but they chose to be in
klei kodesh, that is a massive feat.

Yosef Skolnick
516-690-SKOL


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:23 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com <
kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

> R' Zev Sero asked:
>
> > Ein hachi nami, but what do you do if the subject of your biography
> > really was an illuy? Pretend he wasn't?!
>
> This is a very important question. For me, the answer is to focus on
> whatever it was that he had to struggle with.
>
> Learning comes easy to an illuy, so his ability to learn a great amount, or
> at a young age, does not impress me at all. But just because he was good at
> learning, that doesn't mean that his midos were so great. Maybe he
> understood deep concepts easily, but found it difficult to control his
> temper or get out of bed in the morning.
>
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