“After reading Rav Kerzner’s piece, I will now commit to using this tactic in the ruchniyus world instead”
As always, Rav Aryeh Kerzner’s article was very thought-provoking and profound. His point about the importance of “acting” the part until you actually “become the part” certainly rings true for me. When I left kollel and started working, I literally pretended to my friends and associates that I was enjoying a seamless transition, and meeting success at every turn. I dressed to kill and gave off the impression I was a business mogul. In reality, this couldn’t have been further from the truth. But the act, over time, turned into reality, and I ultimately became the man I presented to the world over the course of my journey. After reading Rav Kerzner’s piece, I will now commit to using this tactic in the ruchniyus world instead. I’ll start behaving like man I wish to be, with the sincere hope that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will assist me in becoming that man I aspire to be.
Y.S.
Thank you for your wonderful article last week on the Metzger twins and the summer camp they run for mesivta boys. They’re truly talented people who are using their kochos for Hashem.
I’m a division head in what the article would call an “old-school” camp, where we don’t have a full first seder in the morning, and we have an intense three-day color war. Our campers range from 4th grade until 9th grade. I’d like to raise a few points about the advent of mesivta camps described in the article.
First, it used to be that parents wouldn’t have to pay for camp once their children reached mid-mesivta years, because their bochurim became staff members in camp and thus wouldn’t be charged to attend. With mesivta camps, an added financial pressure is placed on parents to continue to pay for camp, long after they previously had to.
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