A very serious yeshivah bochur shares a room with two others. He is an extremely light sleeper. He told us over a Shabbos meal about his frustration and anxiety he experiences from lack of sleep. One roommate davens neitz at dawn the other Tikun Chatzos at midnight and between the two of them the light-sleeping bochur gets woken up several times a night and rolls around in agony trying to fall back asleep.
Not even his eye patches or earplugs helped.
Until last week. The bochur came to us again and we noticed that he looked completely different. Refreshed and happy. “What happened?” we asked.
“I’ll tell you” he said face shining. “I went to Tzfas for a little break. There I was invited to someone’s house for Shabbos. A regular nice good family. Somehow we got onto my sleeping problems and the husband shared that he had the exact same problem in yeshivah but overcame it. He pointed out how important it is to learn to sleep despite noise and that it’s good training for life as one day b’ezras Hashem I will have a wife who might make noise and children who cry during the night.
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