Speaker: Daniel Deininger
Date: October 14, 2023
Additional Resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simchat_Torah
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/our-soldiers/from-civilian-to-soldier-the-combat-training-process/
https://www.vox.com/2015/12/30/10674432/israeli-defense-forces
So much of what seems like physical training in the army is ultimately just mental. The purpose of physical hardship during basic training, I would learn, was not to get soldiers into better physical shape, though that is a happy side effect, but to teach the soldier that his own body will lie to them about limitations and that even so he must push through it. Other times physical limitations are real limitations, and I would learn that too.
