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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.
In a Previous Life (Part One)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on April 16th, 2009
Yes, this is part of a serial. No, this is not (quite) fiction. Because of that, I cannot make any commitment to ‘chronological linearity’ throughout this series (or a pledge to weekly updates), as I am not telling over a story with a beginning/middle/end here; rather, I’m relating memories as they coalesce on my ‘front-burner’.
In a previous life (I was around twenty-one or so) I attended a yeshiva that did not allow college. When I informed my rosh yeshiva of the fact that I felt compelled to go university notwithstanding the ‘no-college’ rule, he acquiesced; saying that I could do it – as long as nobody would find out about it.
“I don’t even want to know that you’re going to school – as far as I’m concerned, it’ll be like you’re not,” he told me.
Alas; the Navi says that trying to be “posei-ach al shnei sih-eefim” is, in the end, untenable. For me, the situation ended up being no different.
The Kollel Guy (Part 5)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on April 6th, 2009
Kisses goodnight were delicately applied to the cheeks of Yonah’s sleeping children before he himself decided to turn in for the night.
Lemkele was working on her laptop, drudging through her unending quota of bookkeeping requirements for the company she worked for via ‘conveniant’ telecommunication.
My Niece & I (Part 10)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on April 6th, 2009
We arrive home and Chavie deliriously shows off her new threads to her mommy. After settling down somewhat, she toddles into the kitchen. I realize that I have a choice here. I can play off the possibility that she may have forgotten about the ice-cream promise. The main thing motivating me to do that is the fact that I had never audited the possibility of serving her some Neopolitan Breyers with her mother first. But I can’t do that to Chavie; even if she had ‘forgot all about it.’
Night Out on the Town Part (4)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on April 1st, 2009
Okay, so Aaron was right, the place was a gay bar. My original mis-impression was due (in part) to my original dealing with the bartender; the guy was straight as an arrow. The signs of his masculinity were clear in every measurable way, add to that the enhancement that his plugged-in IPhone sitting next to the register provided the mild voyeur (me): It’s screen-saver consisted of an attractive lady in provocative pose.
The Kollel Guy (Part 4)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on March 30th, 2009
“So, village I from, we have no bathroom inside (guttural ch) chouse. Bathroom is outside,” Moshe said.
My Niece and I (Part 9)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section, humor on March 29th, 2009
Chavie’s sitting snugly in the vinyl back seat of my Altima in much the way I envision the infant Moses was when cruising down the Nile in his little ark. She’s not quick with an answer, giving me both the opportunity to make her an offer (along with the considerable duty of delivering on whatever overture leaves my mouth). My first two suggestions were vetoed by her, but the third one charmed her.
Night Out On The Town (Part 4)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on March 25th, 2009
I shrugged at Aaron and told him that I was going to head over to the bar for a refill. He declined my offer to procure one for him as well, so I went over towards the back of the lounge with just my glass in hand. I gave it to the bartender and patiently stood by the counter, awaiting my forthcoming Corona [1]. I took note of the fellow who was seated on a bar-stool to my immediate right, as he was loudly and nasally pontificating about something to a pal of his. I allowed my right ear to voyeur on into his soliloquy.
The Kollel Guy (Part 3)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on March 24th, 2009
Yonah made his way back into the beis medrash, and re-sat himself across from Arnone, who was laughing like a hyena at his cellphone screen. Text messaging, Yonah thought, those SMS devices are going to bring about the complete decay and collapse of civilization. I just don’t get the allure of it all, isn’t it easier to just call the person you’re texting up?
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