I would like to give everyone a very meaningful concept. Well known is the story about R’ Akiva and his wife. R’ Akiva came back after 12 years learning and heard her say, I’d gladly allow him to learn another 12 years. So he turned around and went back without saying hello thank you. The question of course is, why didn’t he say thank you. Rav Chaim Smulevitz ztzl answers simply. Because one single instance of 24 years solid learning isn’t the same as two times 12 years learning. Rav Dovid Olewski Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of the Brooklyn Gerrer Yeshiva said at an Agudah conference, we can take a daily mussar haskel from this vort. Stop in the middle of the day and learn something for a few minutes. Because two times 4 hours with a learning break isn’t the same as one long stretch of 8 hours without learning. I told this to someone once. He told me a few months later that he retold it to his brother, a salesman. His brother told him lately that he decided to do that. Each day, no matter where he was on the road, he would stop his car and learn a mishne. And he said that over the few months his sales literally doubled.
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