The Halachic Ramifications of Parkinson's Law

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Travis’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay we're now in the school for serious Homer and serious always an interesting that's fine um when you look at serious Alma what are we doing every day we're counting days accounting days so what's the what's the omic what's the deeper meaning of sphere Soma and I want to suggest something as well as I saw last week in a book that something called Parkinson's law Adam you know about Parkinson's law Parkinson's law not real you're familiar with Parkinson's law Parkinson's law yeah probably anyway I don't think it's connected with disease Parkinson's transition but Parkinson was philos right and I'll bring it out with a incident this book brings about office with three secretaries and one afternoon they had to make they each have to make 50 phone calls 150 phone calls and the boss comes in and asks them do you think you'll be able to finish the workload for today he said it's a lot of calls I don't think uh we'll be able to do it right by five o'clock do it right by five o'clock said well that's so bad because I was thinking that you finished my two o'clock I'm gonna let you go home they said we could do it and they're all done by two o'clock so Parkinson said as follows he said that the the amount of time that something takes to do is the amount of time allotted right if you allowed an hour for something it'll take an hour if you allowed five minutes or something take five minutes now of course it depends what you're doing right if you want to finish shots in an hour right it's not gonna work because

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