Why write music? you might ask. It certainly is no reason for bitul Torah. But I had  a  degree of difficulty in learning Torah. Mainly it was such that I walked away from it myself and found I could not really return to the straight Litvak Path. So I  recommend the straight path of Torah --the path that the Gra represents. No additions and no perversions. But that does not imply I am on this holy path myself. I wish I could learn Torah 24/7 as I should but I am finding that difficult. [Not that that is an excuse.]

[I wonder if I had not left the Mir in NY, how things might have turned out better.]