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<font size=3>At 09:12 AM 5/22/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">But it could still not be worth
the learning missed.<br><br>
There is something counterintuitive here, as there are numerous
examples<br>
of R' Avigdor Miller calling on his audience to utilize their wonder
at<br>
the amazingness of the beri'ah as a tool to building emunah and
bitachon.<br>
And yet Niagra Falls... This is why I am guessing that he meant more<br>
"nothing compared to the cost", and not zero in an absolute
sense.<br>
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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
<a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/YeshivaStudents2.html" eudora="autourl">
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/YeshivaStudents2.html</a><br>
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R. Miller could have learned in the car ride to Niagara Falls or taken a
plane and learned on the plane.<br><br>
Yiddishkeit is IMO based on balance, which requires seeing the
world as it is, namely, mostly gray. <br><br>
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?<br><br>
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