Question

Peace to you, my Rabbi and teacher.
I have two questions today:
A. Do you ever find yourself thinking, from time to time, about how many people you influence, and how deeply? I assume mostly for the better, thank God, even without being aware of it. People you have never met, seen, or even heard their names, and yet you changed their lives, sometimes really from one extreme to the other.
B. Don’t you get worn out by the nonstop answering of responsa? Even I sometimes get the feeling that the questions just repeat themselves, or are silly, or both. Maybe this is one of them too. In any case, it surely isn’t simple to do this every day, for seven years already, maybe more. What gives you the strength to keep going?
 
And with all that said, this is a chance to say a huge thank-you for everything you’ve given me over the years—four by now, I think. We only met once, but I read your writings eagerly and listen to the lectures with great enjoyment, at least during the times when I have some relative freedom from my studies in the yeshiva and at the university. You have influenced me very significantly, in a way that is hard for me even to describe, and I won’t weary you with it. In short, I’ll say, as the saying / line goes, that thanks to you I have a kippah on my head and a head under the kippah 🙂