[Avodah] Making a bracha on Niagara Falls

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:52:57AM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
: 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.

But AGAIN, no one obligated RAMiller to hold like RSRH.

Although here there is no contradiction. A class trip to Niagra Falls
will reduce learning. A gadol's trip the alps does not necessarily.
It's not like schoolkids will be learning on the bus, shift their sedarim
around, etc...

: 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.

But this isn't about how RAMiller lived now about life in general. It's
advice to a school, an institution dedicated to learning.

What I am actually taken by is the importance RAM is giving girls'
education. Contrast that to the number of seminaries today that are
so exclusively focused on inspiring that textual education is limited.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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