Q. Dear Rov and colleague. As we already spoke on the phone, I was offered to give a Shiur on Shabbos afternoon to a large group of advanced Torah learners that meet there only on Shabbos and recently lost their Rabbi. They are very interested in learning the modern topics that I can deliver. Without my teaching the group may just dissolve.
I’m very interested and pleased to be able to teach that distinguished group. However, I have a problem. To reach the shul where this group convenes, I have to walk about forty minutes there and then again back. I’m Be’H not a young man anymore and I have to take care also of my own Shul. Since I also have some small heart issues, I consulted with my physician. He advised me that if I’m feeling well, the exercise is welcome. But I should take with me a heart rates indicator. There is an Eiruv, yet I usually avoid carrying when not essential.
My question to Horav Miller Shlit’a is, should I put all this effort in teaching this shiur? Is it advised or even permitted?
A. if the doctor permits and you feel up to it in each separate occasion, it is very advisable to go ahead and do it. The Rov added that the value, worth and reward for teaching Torah when it is difficult and challenging is most incredible, it is truly incomparable and completely well, well above the simple ordinary easy way we usually teach.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.