With God’s help, 5 Cheshvan 5781

To Rabbi Michael Abraham — greetings,

If your son Nachman (Nachi) — to whose wedding you dedicated the article “Cupid and Other Animals: Why Get Married?” — is an expert at summaries, one might suggest that he also prepare summaries of his father’s posts. Just as Rabbi Jacob ben Asher did with the abridgment of the Rosh’s rulings.

If he is willing to prepare summaries from his father’s posts, lovers of brevity will thank him and say to him: “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands” 🙂

With the blessing of “Na Nach Nachma Nachman Abraham,”
Sh Shem Shemesh Shamsho Samson from the Morning Star

Do you happen to be related to attorney Yeshayahu (Shaike) Abraham?

These aren’t summaries that just shorten things down to the main points, but really well-organized material covering the entire course from beginning to end. In quite a few courses, I relied in my self-study on his “summaries” (only at a later stage did I realize where the talent came from), and I owe him a pretty serious package of thanks. In my mind I compare every course “summary” I come across to those of Prof. Yoav Benyamini in Calculus 1–2 (which in my view are a model of precision and brevity), and if I still remember correctly, Nachi has a magnificent “summary” on groups and rings that is absolutely exemplary (compared, for example, to Ron Aharoni’s rather mediocre lecture notes on modern algebra).