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OPINION | EDUCATION, PERSONAL GROWTH & MENTAL FITNESS Why Achei Tmimim's Mental Fitness Day might be teaching young men something the rest of society desperately needs to learn: discipline, accountability, emotional resilience, and the increasingly radical concept of following through on something. I recently came across an article titled Building Mental Fitness at Achei Tmimim , published by COLlive on October 27, 2026, and I'll admit that my initial reaction was a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and the kind of cautious optimism I usually reserve for politicians promising to balance the budget. Mental fitness? At a yeshiva? Young men voluntarily participating in exercises designed to improve their emotional resilience, personal accountability, and ability to set meaningful goals? What is this madness? Are we actually attempting to produce functioning adults? Because if there's one thing I've learned from watching modern society stumble through its daily existence...
