bittul torah

Brochos (5,1) If one is afflcted with pain he should examine his actions and if not found a reason, than the fault is bittul torah. Isn’t that a good enough reason? They answer that if he could not find a reason, he did not learn enough and there must have been bittul torah.

Coffee room is Bittul Torah par excellence. אין לך ביטול תורה גדול מזה

Taken to its illogical extreme, any time spent beyond that necessary to engage in essential life-supporting functions (presumably including earning a parnassah) is bitul torah. Just my own hypothesis, but I would suspect that most posters would not automatically be shteiging in the beis medrash were it not for their addiction to the CR.

Also, this mistake of mechanchim has led people to think that games are in the same category as movies, since they’re both bitul torah….for causing this kind of conflation, they bear a part of the responsibility of those who mistakenly believe that “well I’m not learning so i might as well go and watch movies”

Also, rav aharon kotler in mishnas rebbe aharon discusses two types of bitul torah; one is “bekamus”, in quantity, and the other is “be’aychus”, in quality. Meaning, if one is able to learn for 3 hours, but lears for 2.5, that is bitul torah bekamus. If one can learn gemara rashi and tosfos, but is lazy and just learns gemara rashi, that is bitul torah be’aychus (unless you’re learning rashi b’iyun, which is entirely doable and should be done at any opportunity).

Being on the CR and writing my diatribes is a question of bitul torah be’aychus, as i write almost exclusively on halacha and hashkofa topics…it could be bitul torah, or not; I don’t know, but my intention is to try and express authentic hashkofa in a clear way as i have learned it and possibly influence others to not fall lrey to the onslaught of misinformation online and in communities who are unfortunately miseducated.

RebE> should examine his actions and if not found a reason, than the fault is bittul torah.

Find me someone who paid all his workers on time first (as with R Huna there) and then we can ask him about bitul Torah.

I do like Avira’s definition of mental capacity for learning (limited, but hopefully increasing). So, after you are exhausted your learning capacity for the day, you can come to CR. I think many of us are already following this advice!

Seriously, CR references provide sufficient material for learning. And major part of learning is being able to defend your views against a worthy opponent. R Yohanan would have stayed sane and alive after Resh Lakish petirah if he could have logged in here.

This is own of the few times I agree with GH, the vast majority of people here would not spend the time that they are on the YWN learning with hasmada, and it gives an outlet to all the trolls to act stupid and all the frustrated lamdans a forum to show of the gadlus

From a purely personal perspective, I frequently gain considerably more insight into daas torah here in the CR from some incredibly knowledgeable posters on divrei torah than in many more formal shiiurim and learning venues. Having acknowledged their gadlus in daas torah, I feel an obligation to occasionally enlighten and/or inform their views on contemporary political matters or at least offer a differing perspective than the usual echo chamber on some issues.

Avira, capitalizing a Rav’s name is a show of respect. Rav Aaron Kotler ztz’l deserves that respect which I learned in secular (compared to Torah) studies of proper English in the Yeshiva.

Avira, you are in great company of Harvard Graduate Poet, e.e. cummings known for being a non-conformist who wrote everything with small letters but why are you greater than Rav Kotler ztz’l with your screen name by using three capital letters?

AAQ, we cannot show respect with what we don’t have. In English this is the way of respect. If everything is shown in capital letters or small letters, no respect is shown.
When I wrote a teshuva for multiple people separately, I used the RMA’s title designation:
שו”ת הרמ”א סימן א
לקדם רבותינו שבבריסק, כל אחד יתברך ויתרומם לפי מעלת מדרגתו, שלום
I am European where respect was shown and not like in America were everyone is called by there first name or by ‘you’. We as children in Hungary greeted the elderly with kezit csokolom, I kiss your hand.
Calling myself Reb Eliezer is a lesson for all and having great rebbies as the Mattisdorfer Rav ztz’l, father and son, I consider myself a talmid (mei) chacham. Standing up for the elderly (in a bus) is something from the past or opening a door for someone. When there is no respect for the elderly, it is time for Meshiach.

Note that English forces respect to your opponent by having “you” plural, even if you are not capitalizing the opponent’s name. This does not extend to other people you mention, though.