Not only on the medical level: this way you will deal with the corona more easily
Scientists, experts and medical professionals around the world are working around the clock on a vaccine for corona but there is a way that it is not medical which may make it easier for you to get through it.
Not only on the medical level: this way you will deal with the corona more easily
Eruvin Tractate Daf Noach (Photography and Editing: Walla! NEWS)
Suffering from the corona virus?
Does it keep you busy most of the day?
Coughs, headaches and other side effects?
While scientists, experts and doctors are working around the clock to find the medical way to recover from the virus, here you can learn another way to deal with it more easily.
And not just with the corona, but with almost any problem you have a hard time solving or dealing with.
The question is not whether there are problems in life, but how we deal with them.
For example, a child stuttering?
Of course you have to take care of it, go to the best experts and do everything possible.
And this is just one example, there are children who suffer from lameness in walking, children who are shy or any other problem.
After all, no one is born perfect, but again - the question is how do we deal with it?
In the Gemara in Tractate Eruvin, Daf Noach deals with "areas".
One needs to know where the area of two thousand amma from the city ends, and for that one needs to measure the area.
How do you measure?
With a measuring rope, stretch a rope from point to point, so you know the distance.
But what happens when there is a valley in the middle of the area or there is a mountain?
Problem, eh?
This is how you will cope.
Illustration (Photo: AP)
Corona testing team in a slum in Mumbai, India.
July 10, 2020 (Photo: AP)
So the answer to this is given in a mishnah in which it is written that if the surveyors reached a valley, or a fence of stones that fell and a wave of stones remained, what would they do?
Should one descend into the valley and measure meter by meter, or should one measure the height of the wave of stones?
Do not need!
Swallow it!
Measure from above and move on!
And if they reached the mountain, should they climb up the mountain and measure the area?
No!
Measure from below, in the flat area next to the mountain, and move on.
Rabbi Chaim David Kowalski, the presenter of the
digital gemara
, explained that "True, this is not an accurate measurement, but sages determined" swallow it. "If a child has a small wound, what do they do? ? No! The focus is gone, not focused on pain, we skipped the problem with him.
Even if there is a problem you do not have to mess with it all day.
A child stutters, we take care of it, but do not have to remind him all day and do not have to deal with it all day.
Suffering from corona?
So the same thing.
A wise Jew who deals with education said: Every person has shortcomings, the role of the parents is not to show the child what he is missing, but to show him what he has.
Rabbi Chaim David Kowalski (screenshot: Walla! NEWS
Tractate Brachot, page 9 (Photo: Walla! NEWS, screenshot)
Rabbi Kowalski explained that "this is true in every field."
According to him, also in the field of business, in relationships and in any matter.
If you focus on the problem more than you need to solve it, if you think about it all the time and it bothers and catches the thoughts, it inspires sadness, it brings a feeling of dissatisfaction.
Why?
Because the brain is not allowed to enjoy the good things, the happiness that is in life.
Therefore, the conclusion is that problems are treated, but problems are not dealt with. "
Want to learn more topics according to the Gemara?
This is your chance to join the digital gemara venture.
This is a project in which you will watch a daily video clip based on the daily page presented by Rabbi Kowalski, founder and head of the Daf Yomi daily organization.
As part of this, each person can be part of hundreds of thousands in Israel and around the world who make sure to regularly study one page of Gemara a day, by watching a short daily video clip.
The section on dealing with problems is based on the daily page in Tractate Eruvin, Daf Noach, and is also published in full
on the Digital Gemara website
.
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