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<DIV>In a message dated 12/10/2008 3:12:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>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.<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>When I learned in the high school of Telshe in Cleveland many years ago,
our rebbe told us a story about his rebbe, one of the Telzer Rosh
HaYeshivas ( I think it was R.E.M. Bloch zt'l, but it may have been R. M,
Katz zt'l). The RY was going on a bus trip to another city,and he asked his
talmid to get him a small gemara to take along so he could learn on the trip.
His talmid asked why doesn't he just take it easy and look out the window? He
answered that he was too lazy. Our rebbe didn't explain what that meant, but I
assume it meant that it had become so natural for him to learn that
it took a lot of effort for him not to
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