Late to Learning - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

I learn with different boys, and part of my rules are you got to be consistent, you got to come on time, you got to work hard. Anyways, there was a certain boy, let's call him Pliny. And Pliny one day was supposed to come at 2:00, didn't show up at 2:00. And I was thinking to myself, wondering like, he knows the rules, why is he not here at 2:00? I can't help you if you don't want to be helped. And you know, I was forming in my head like these different ways, like, well, I I wonder what it could be. He's probably sleeping, he's probably sleeping. Okay. Anyways, at 2:30 I get a text, by the way, do we start at 2:45? I'm like, we never start at 2:45, we start at 2:00. What type of question is that? And then I'm like, ah, of course. Like, if you come late, that's what you say. Didn't we start later today, Rebbi? No, but that's what you're going to say to try to get yourself out. Okay, anyways, I decided I'm not going to respond, I'm going to wait till he comes. Okay, so I had 15 minutes filled, you know, we started at 2:45, so. And I took a look at the previous texts, and lo and behold, I told him that tomorrow we're going to be starting at 2:45, in other words, the day before. So, he was right, and I was wrong. Now, if I would have done like I first, if I would have just been thinking like, maybe is it possible I said 2:45? No, it's impossible. What because every single day we start at 2:00, it's impossible. And yet it was possible. And not only was it possible, it's actually what happened. It was 2:45. Can you imagine? So, just because it's always been like this, or we think we really know, maybe, just maybe, we're wrong.