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Amein! This is a thoughtful and sensitive, piece.
I was in camp and our learning director suggestied 3 kabbalos that everyone should make in elul. 1- accept the machsom l’fi program. which is, saying no lashon from 9am to 10am. 2- Learning two mishnos in all the “wasted time”. (After you finished shemoneh esray and your’e waiting for the tzibbur…) in one year you’ll finish a seder in mishnayos and in 6-8 years you can finish sheesha sidrei mishna. It sounds like a long time but it is so easy. It just takes between 5 and 12 minutes a day. You’ll be surprised how much you can accomplish. 3- Learning mishna berura a page a day. It doesn’t take longer than 15-20 minutes. My father does it on the way to work to manhattan on the train. IT IS SO EASY. IN 5-6 years you’ll finish the entire mishna berura. MY father is in middle of his second round of mishna berura on the TRAIN. If you look at mishna berura as a whole it looks like it will take a lifetime to finish. But with 15 minutes a day you can finish it in 5-6 years!!!
learning two mishnos in all the “wasted time”. (After you finished shemoneh esray and your’e waiting for the tzibbur…)
i would suggest, what is my opinion, even a better kabalah:
try NOT to finish Shemoneh Esrei before the Tzibur.
by trying to take your time with more concentration, feeling and Kavanah, and thinking about HaKodeshBarchu and trying to feel His presence
there is a time for Learning and there is a time for Davening. during the time for Davening, work on THAT. (one mans opinion)
feivel: Some Gedolim b’davka held one should daven quickly, as to have Kavana the entire time that one davens. Just FYI, not arguing the point.
interesting gavra. i never heard that. ive seen quite a few Gedolim daven, i never saw one daven “quickly”
i wonder if you perhaps misunderstood them, or they were referring perhaps b’dieved for someone who is having trouble with Kavanah (im just guessing here).
if anyone is familiar with this and knows who said it and what exactly they meant i would be very interested.
thanks for the info gavra.
i’m sorry. besides for that time, there are many other times where if you just have a pocket mishnayos it’s so easy to do 2 mishnos a day.
Point being – take something extra upon yourself. Whatever you see fit, but see how to become a better person
i’ve heard of people who finished sedarim of mishnayos or shas waiting on line at the grocery
i meant what goody said. there are so many times during the day totallly WASTED!!1
like between Krias Hatorah
I have weekly parsha sheets that are in the vestibule of the shul. I take one in with me, and read the D”T between aliyos. Small steps, that accomplish something worthwhile.
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