tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post4548036143984968086..comments2023-08-15T09:20:12.403-07:00Comments on Pesach Sheini: Fear - part IIPesach Sommerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429802587338023317noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-71854251584554211002013-12-19T22:15:37.623-08:002013-12-19T22:15:37.623-08:00This is a great expansion of your ideas, Pesach an...This is a great expansion of your ideas, Pesach and I thank you for it. Your suggestions are pretty realistic. <br /><br />"Look for one thing you’d like to do differently and work on it," is a perfect place for most of us to start. I will add from experience, it's good to share that "thing" with your family. There is massive value in your children and spouse seeing that you are attempting to change. For myself, when I was deep into Weight Watchers, certain eating habits that I adopted (like eating fruit throughout the day) is something that my kids started doing.<br />Neil Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12797772082427806345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-14266177810089276202013-12-19T11:34:02.532-08:002013-12-19T11:34:02.532-08:00Clarification: When I wrote Lithuanian yeshivos, I...Clarification: When I wrote Lithuanian yeshivos, I mean schools actually in Lithuania. Both those formally within the Mussar Movement, and those simply sympathetic to it, like Mir, Telzh or Grodno. Today's "Lithuanian" yeshivos wouldn't touch this kind of thing, but that's more a subject of the prior post.micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-42133308994107564892013-12-19T11:20:19.765-08:002013-12-19T11:20:19.765-08:00Every other Sun evening a half-dozen friends and I...Every other Sun evening a half-dozen friends and I get together on Google Hangouts and learn some Alei Shur. The section is divided into middos, and each middah into sections. A section is around a page, and at the end R' Wolbe suggests an exercise. A small exercise, incrementing beyond the last one, slowly stretching our capability. The central feature is the exercise, not the learning. We discuss how we did at the opening of the next session, and perhaps if the problems outweigh the advance, we'll decide to simply discuss the isssues and not move forward.<br /><br />Between meetings, chavrusos check in with each other daily (or more) to see how it's going. On the skipped Sunday, give or take a day, they review the material together. This way, you don't lose momentum between meetings.<br /><br />We call this invention an eVaad, an on-line variant of the ve'adim found in many Lithuanian yeshivos. And it's much like what you're suggesting here. The biggest difference is compromising on personalization for the sake of having the support of a group of va'ad members.micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.com