How Were You Able to Sleep? - R. Avrohom Walkin - TorahAnytime.com

One story was like this. Shock when he was in his old when he was older, he would come to the Yeshiva in the morning. This is towards like his 90s. He would come, give his sheer, and then he would go home, and he wouldn't come back for second seder. This was toward when he was in his 90s. But he would always make his effort to try to come to Yeshiva like in around whatever time it was to give the sheer. So very rarely when he was night like I said his 90s, he would come second seder to Yeshiva. One day he comes second seder to Yeshiva. Old man frail with Shock walks in, and he goes over to one of his best students he has. One of his better ones, and he tells him like this. He says, "How are you feeling?" Wow, Shock comes Baruch Hashem. I feel good. Did anyone tell the Yeshiva I wasn't feeling well? No. No. What time you feeling? Then Shock asked him, "Did you sleep last night?" He says, "Yeah, I slept pretty good last night." He goes, "How come you weren't in sheer? How come you don't come to the sheer or yesterday?" He goes, "Yeshiva, I was in sheer. You don't remember we even discussed a certain question that we had that the Yeshiva asked, and we had a question." He goes, "One second. So you say you're feeling good, okay, Baruch Hashem. You say you slept well, good. That means you're feeling well, you slept well. And you obviously came to sheer. Do you have any answer to the question we had?" So he said, "No. I I we know we I know waiting for the next Yeshiva sheer on it. I understand that it was a big it was a difficulty for the Yeshiva. How am I supposed to come up with the answer?" So Shock said, "I don't understand. We have a question. I forgot it was the driver or the the Rashba. I think it was the Rashba. He said over. Yeah, but we had a shaila on the Rashba, question on the Rashba. We left the sheer with this question. And you were able to A feel good, fall asleep, and you came to share. How were you able to sleep at night? When you have a question on the rashba, how were you able to sleep at night? Rav Shach said that I, he said to this bochur, I the entire night, I went I lied down in bed for a second, I jumped out of bed. I needed to find an answer to this rashba. I needed to find an answer to this rashba. Therefore, I couldn't sleep at night. How can you sleep when you have a question on that needs answered? How can you sleep? How can you fall asleep when you have this on your mind? God forbid, somebody has a big tzuris on his mind, a suffering on his mind, he has a hard time falling asleep. Something's happening the next day, God forbid, God forbid, a surgery, or somebody's family member is in a bad state. Can't fall asleep at night. I remember, and I'm not when the when the war started, the just recently, this part of the the lately, before Purim time, when the when when the when the all the missiles took place, I remember, seriously, guys, remember, it happened only a month and a half ago, with a phone, my wife's iPhone next to both of our beds, with live footage of Yerushalayim. Because I had two children learning Torah over there, and we were worried about the missiles. I can't do anything anyway. What am I going to do? But worry, every time the sirens went off, I don't know if you know the people that are on their phones when the sirens would go off. We didn't sleep at night. Every time a siren went off, every hour, every half hour, every 20 minutes, we were glued. This is how a person's supposed to view a mailis b'Torah, what it means to be an ovel b'Torah. We You should not be able to fall asleep until you have the answer you need.