העורך Editor

הנה המכתב:

רח”ל מדעתו.

לצפיה ביוטיוב כאן…

I read that Rabbi Nosson Libermensh (“mashpia” in Berslov) said one should organize one’s day such that one can daven well.

Instead of planning the day to ensure chavrusos or meetings or parnassa or health, one should first ensure the right sort of minyan, enough time to get there, time to prepare, earlier schedule, and then find a way to fit everything else into the day.

I don’t know what his source is, but it sounds like it’s worth a try.

הרב מאיר מאזוז שליט”א (בית נאמן גליון 384) מצא לזה סמך בתרגום אונקלוס.

ויירא ויאמר מה נורא המקום הזה, אין זה כי אם בית אלהים וזה שער השמים.

וז”ל התרגום: “ודחיל ואמר מה דחילו אתרא הדין…”, היינו שיש שם יראה, ולא תרגם “דחיל”, מפחיד.

(בתרגום השני איתא: ודחיל ואמר מה דחיל ומשבח אתרא הדין…)

Quoting Milton Friedman:

“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

And here is the famous quote from JM Keynes:

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”