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You might have heard that there's a tv show called 24 which as its name suggests non stop intensive imagination and day dreaming for 24 hours. The Rosh Yeshiva of the show is Harav Hagoan JB. So the big question is how can such a great rosh yeshiva go 24 hours without praying or learning a word of Torah?! So some people are quick to assert that obviously JB is a goy. But this is hard to accept, that the safe fantasy of the entire world is dependent on a goy?! So the real answer is that the halacha is that one who is "oasaik bitzurchay tzeeboor," (involved in attending to the needs of the public), and all the more so if he's involved in "peekuach nefesh" (saving life), is exempt from all prayer and learning! Now even still it is almost not possible for any Jew, and most certainly a great rosh yeshiva to go completely without prayer and Torah for a full 24 hours, no matter what they are involved in, but here we see the great mesiras nefesh (-self sacrifice) of hagoan hurav JB!!!
The producers however, took this into consideration, that there would be in the future binge watchers who might get so pulled into extending themselves into the make believe that they would also deem themselves exempt from all prayer and Torah, so they condensed each episode which portrays an entire hour - to 43 minutes, affording the watcher 17 minutes to grab some Torah and prayer. Unfortunately many have paskenned (ruled) for themselves that just watching the holy JB is like learning Torah (G"f), and their prayers for him as they are caught in the drama of the fantasy pass for real prayers.
If one merits to use those 17 minutes in the most productive way - that is - to sing Na Nach Nahcma Nachman MayUman he may break out of the whole seduction of the emptiness of the make believe and never watch any tv again his whole life, amen.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
You might have heard that there's a tv show called 24 which as its name suggests non stop intensive imagination and day dreaming for 24 hours. The Rosh Yeshiva of the show is Harav Hagoan JB. So the big question is how can such a great rosh yeshiva go 24 hours without praying or learning a word of Torah?! So some people are quick to assert that obviously JB is a goy. But this is hard to accept, that the safe fantasy of the entire world is dependent on a goy?! So the real answer is that the halacha is that one who is "oasaik bitzurchay tzeeboor," (involved in attending to the needs of the public), and all the more so if he's involved in "peekuach nefesh" (saving life), is exempt from all prayer and learning! Now even still it is almost not possible for any Jew, and most certainly a great rosh yeshiva to go completely without prayer and Torah for a full 24 hours, no matter what they are involved in, but here we see the great mesiras nefesh (-self sacrifice) of hagoan hurav JB!!!
The producers however, took this into consideration, that there would be in the future binge watchers who might get so pulled into extending themselves into the make believe that they would also deem themselves exempt from all prayer and Torah, so they condensed each episode which portrays an entire hour - to 43 minutes, affording the watcher 17 minutes to grab some Torah and prayer. Unfortunately many have paskenned (ruled) for themselves that just watching the holy JB is like learning Torah (G"f), and their prayers for him as they are caught in the drama of the fantasy pass for real prayers.
If one merits to use those 17 minutes in the most productive way - that is - to sing Na Nach Nahcma Nachman MayUman he may break out of the whole seduction of the emptiness of the make believe and never watch any tv again his whole life, amen.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
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