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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 20:23:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: How to Both Learn and Work all Day

Just a quick footnote on some of the postings in Volume 30 Number 53
which suggest that there are two possibilities a) learning all day
in a Kollel b) working and learning.

In my article, TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF TORAH, AOJS VOL III-IV (reprints
available upon email request with an address) I suggested (based on
a Rav Hirsch) that the Messianic goal is to COMBINE both these goals.

For example, suppose you work in a hardware repair shop. There is a
whole tractate called UTENSILS. Thus every time I pick up a broken
utensil I immeidately think of many halacoth---eg i) what type of
utensil is it--functional or spatial, ii) what is the status of its
handles, iii) which of its nails/screws are capable of receiving
unclean/clean status iv) what is the status of its cover etc.

In this way I spend my entire day learning--some learning will be
intense while during my work hours I am 'randomly reviewing'.

In a similar manner a surgeon can review 'the laws of ritual
slaughtering' while doing surgery, the high school math teacher reviews
the laws of calendars while teaching.

Russell Hendel; Math; Towson; RHendel@Towson.edu
Moderator Rashi Is SImple; http://www.shamash.org/rashi/