It's Time for Bravery

I am not a particularly brave person. I won’t go on rollercoasters, and I don’t ever complain at restaurants or even return items to stores. And while you might have seen pictures of me swimming with large sharks or manhandling alligators and pythons and leopards, that’s not bravery, it’s just that I have no fear of animals.

I also happen not to have a fear of public speaking. Nevertheless, when I went to the neighborhood shiur a few weeks ago in which R. Mordechai Neugerschal explained why char...