Take a Break? - Rabbi Mayer Simcha Stromer

one of our biakov kamenetzky's last contributions to yeshiva toravadas was founding the camp or shrag up in the mountains and he was very very excited about this he thought it was incredibly important for the yeshiva now he highlighted although the boys are going to be learning and and learning well in in camp or shraga he was not with the show and to tell them that this isn't just an extension of yeshiva because it was just an extension of yeshiva he was concerned that somewhere in the middle of the next man boys would burn out they would fizzle out to just be too overwhelmed he said you need to take breaks and he highlighted with the following muscle he said if you look at a safer torah they all have bricks between parshiots between svarim there are many many breaks in a safer torah and urbiaco said just as if a word is missing from a safer torah if a letter is missing from a safer torah the sacred torah is possible so so too the breaks are incredibly important as well and without a break it could possibly say for torah we see just as important as the letters right the breaks are just as important as the letters serbiako said like this we need to make sure that we're taking breaks and i know not everybody's in school so therefore not everybody has a summer vacation but i think the summer lends itself a little bit to be a little bit more relaxed maybe at night when it's still light out to sit out on the porch or take a chair sit on the front lawn or go for a walk as the sun setting it becomes a little bit cooler to reflect on what we've been doing where we're holding how we've been growing and i think sometimes when we take that break to recognize how much we've done it gives us the ability to go forward because so often life we're just running from one thing to the next thing and there's so many things that are just bombarding us throughout the day that we never pause and reflect and think about what have i actually accomplished and because we don't take the time to reflect on what we've been doing we're not as satisfied with our honorable hashem we don't feel as great as we should because we don't take time to appreciate the midst of us that we've been doing the mice and token that we've been involved in the kind words that we've been saying to our friends because we're just in the rat race of life and i think we need to pause whether we're in camp whether in the city whether they're at our office whether we're at home it doesn't make a difference we need to take a break we need a pause we need to reflect and when you do that when you appreciate everything that you've been doing all the good that you've been involved in it will give you the ability to go vital and accomplish that much more [Music]