”If you want the learning you do to really make an impact,” Rav Schorr told the men, “then take one daf and review it 101 times, just like Chazal tell us.’”
When Gil Stein joined Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s two-day trip to New York last winter to meet with prominent rabbanim, he expected to come away inspired. After all, this was the second time he was joining the rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue on this trip for the men of the shul. But he couldn’t have anticipated just how life-changing it would be.
Stein, a roofing contractor and father of three who’s been living in Boca for 13 years, remembers how he felt listening to Rav Avraham Schorr, Rav of Congregation Nezer Gedalyahu of Brooklyn, as he spoke about strengthening their Torah study – and then gave them practical instructions for doing so.
”If you want the learning you do to really make an impact,” Rav Schorr told the men, “then take one daf and review it 101 times, just like Chazal tell us.’”
The men from Boca took the advice to heart. That very evening, as they waited to catch their flight home, one of the men downloaded the first daf of Brachos onto his phone and said, “Let’s do this.”
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