[Avodah] Making a bracha on Niagara Falls

[Prof. Levine]

At 09:12 AM 5/22/2018, Micha Berger wrote:

>But it could still not be worth the learning missed.
>
>There is something counterintuitive here, as there are numerous examples
>of R' Avigdor Miller calling on his audience to utilize their wonder at
>the amazingness of the beri'ah as a tool to building emunah and bitachon.
>And yet Niagra Falls... This is why I am guessing that he meant more
>"nothing compared to the cost", and not zero in an absolute sense.


RSRH certainly was involved in learning to a great extent,  and yet 
he took the time to go to Switzerland to see,  I presume, the 
Alps.  I know that Rav Schwab also went to Switzerland.  Many gedolim 
in Europe  went in the summer to vacation resorts,  and there are 
pictures of Mir students at summer camp. See 
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/YeshivaStudents2.html

R. Miller could have learned in the car ride to Niagara Falls or 
taken a plane and learned on the plane.

Yiddishkeit is IMO based on balance,  which requires seeing the world 
as it is,  namely,  mostly gray.

I knew R. Miller very well, and he saw the world in only black and 
white.  IMO opinion he lived a life of extremes. He even "resented" 
having to go the Chasana of a grandchild in Cleveland.  I do not know 
of any other grandfather who would have felt that way,  do you?

YL
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