shebbesonian – I hear your kasha, but I don’t think it’s a stira. It’s known that Rav Chaim is kulo Torah. I heard that he wants to make sure that his memory storage is completely free for Torah so he doesn’t remember anything that is not directly connected to Torah. While he is learning the sugya of how to make tea on Shabbos, he knows how to make tea, and when someone asks him a sheilah about making tea, he may know how to make tea, but when it comes to making tea in the practical world, he is focused on learning Torah as he does it and forgets to light the fire. For Rav Chaim, making tea only exists as a halachic/Torah sugya not as a practical thing in the “real world”, aka olam hasheker.
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