{"id":98637,"date":"2022-11-20T02:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98637"},"modified":"2022-11-20T02:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:47:22","slug":"in-attendance-with-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/in-attendance-with-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"In Attendance, with Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Attendance, with Attention<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was once delivering an important message in Miami, I was surprised to find a man in the audience holding a sefer and learning from it, completely oblivious to the divrei Torah<\/em> being spoken. He was focused on his sefer as though now was the time to learn on his own.<\/p>\n

In spite of his demonstration of disrespect, I chose to ignore him and continued with my delivery. Suddenly, he closed his sefer in a state of alarm and paid complete attention to my words. I was surprised at his change of heart and decided to ask him about it afterward.<\/p>\n

As soon as I finished my lecture, I turned to the man and told him, \u201cThroughout the speech, I noticed that you were immersed in a sefer. But suddenly, you slammed it shut and listened to my words. Please explain what that was all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to my question, he fetched the sefer and opened it to the following words, \u201cWhen a person learns from a sefer while a Rav is delivering a speech, he indicates that the Rav\u2019s words are unimportant to him. This is a disgrace to the Torah.\u201d The man expressed his regret at having belittled me and my holy message.<\/p>\n

The words the man read were a Heavenly signal that he should pay attention to the speech which he was attending, and not involve himself in other works. He immediately ceased his improper behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Attendance, with Attention When I was once delivering an important message in Miami, I was surprised to find a man in the audience holding a sefer and learning from it, completely oblivious to the divrei Torah being spoken. He was focused on his sefer as though now was the time to learn on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":58983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-dignity-of-talmidei-chachamim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}