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Just Moved To NY…
Posted by Talmudist in Uncategorized on September 17th, 2009
…and my internet is still (very) sketchy, but I hope to get this blog back on the road as soon as that’s fixed. Thanks everyone!
The Kollel Guy (part 6)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section, Uncategorized on April 26th, 2009
Writer’s note: For those who have been reading this blog from its inception, some of the next parts of this serial might bear an uncanny resembelance to a previously removed story. No, your eyes are not deceiving you.
Yonah walked back to his house, sure of himself for the first time in…in as long as he could really remember. He wanted this for so long, but now felt confident in himself – he was sure that he was making the ‘right’ choice. He dialed up a rebbi from one of the yeshivas that he had spent a large chunk of his seminal yeshiva days at.
In a Previous Life (Part 2)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section, Uncategorized on April 23rd, 2009
So that first semester ended with me receiving a 4.0 average, and still being able to attend just about every seder in yeshiva. But I was burning the candle at both ends, and it would hit me hard the next semester, when I would be taking much more serious courses; Inorganic Chem I, and Precalculus.
The Limbo of it all *
Posted by Talmudist in D'var Torah, Scatterbrained Posts, Sports, Uncategorized on April 11th, 2009
So I’m supposed to be working on an article for a more ‘choshuv‘ publication than the ones that I have already been featured in, but it’s an uphill climb – for me. There are so many ways to view just what it is that I’m (supposed to be?) writing about w/r/t the particular subject matter at hand - so many seemingly conflicting ambiguities are involved (just how is it possible to have a truly objective POV on just about, well, just about anything…that is, at least when writing a piece of investigative journalism?), and seemingly unending fact-checking responsibilities float around the project’s background…
The calender has not been much of a friend in my endeavors either, what with ‘no-work’ Pesach days cramming up prime workweek real estate. But there’s nothing one can do but keep pushing.
The option of throwing in the towel does not exist. ‘Shevah yee’pol tzaddik v’kom;’ my friend. (”Get busy living or get busy dying,” etc.).
I heard an interview recently between Terry Gross and the comedian Russell Brand which is, I think, pretty ‘on point’ (no intention for punnery was latent there, seriously).
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