"escalator"

Question

"Ever try climbing up a down escalator?" I'm sorry, but waht the heck does that mean? That is, I don't get the reference.

Answer

Answered by Aaron Abadi

If you study so slowly but you are not getting anywhere, but you keep going day after day. You never really move. You stay in the same spot.... That is the way most people study Torah today. They sit in the same page for months at a time. It's depressing, ridiculous, and plain silly.... AA