If They Can Do It, You Can Do It!

You say, "Wait a minute, these are balabatim like myself. If they could do it, I could do it." What's easier, to take a lesson from a Rosh Yeshiva? Say you see a Rosh Yeshiva learning on a plane. Are you going to learn from him to learn on a plane? No, cuz he's a Rosh Yeshiva, you're not. He doesn't inspire you. You say, "Well, he's he's over here, I'm over here." But when you see Reb Mordechai Landau learning on a plane, when you see Reb Yisrael Klein doing chazara on Shabbos, when you see Reb Mordechai Ashkenazi going back to the beginning of Shas and learning on the plane, another mesechta, another mesechta, catch up with chazara, you say, "Wait a minute, these are balabatim like myself. If they could do it, I could do it." That's inspiration. You could see it in the words over here. Hedyot mehedyot odif lan. I'd rather learn from another hedyot, another simple person, than to learn or take advice, take a lesson. Chashasham, I want to take advice from them, but they're in a different madrega. I don't know that Reb Chaim Kanievsky inspires me as much as a balabos that works all day long, but he comes home and he and he shtiegs away for three hours, cuz I can relate to that more. Hedyot mehedyot odif lan.