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In this Shiur
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Rabbi Silber's Parsha Vort on Eikev opens with the second paragraph of Krias Shema and its sobering message: our hold on blessing in the land is tied to our ongoing relationship with Torah, and it can slip away just as it was granted. From there he turns to the Riminover Rebbe's remark about paved roads, once travelers were forced to stop each night at an inn, now they never stop moving, to teach that real avodah requires learning to slow down. He argues that being scattered across everything at once means doing nothing fully, and that getting rid of the rush is what actually produces both better results and inner tranquility.
Being pulled in many directions at once usually means doing none of them fully.
Real accomplishment comes from calm, focused effort, not frantic multitasking.
Modern time-saving conveniences often steal our tranquility rather than give us more of it.
Slowing down and doing less can leave you with more, both in results and inner peace.
Our hold on blessing is tied to an ongoing relationship with Torah, not a one-time achievement.
“When you're all over the place all the time, you're never really doing anything one hundred percent — you're just partially committed and partially successful at a whole bunch of things.”
Rabbi Silber· presence and focus
“The key to life is sometimes to get rid of the rush — to lose the frantic pace of life.”
