The Kollel Guy (Part 1)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on March 10th, 2009
New fictional serial:
Yonah Gishering woke up in a cold sweat.
The dream was so vivid – God commanding him to convert the non-Jewish world to Judaism. He was, G-d had told him in the dream, the world’s only hope for redemption. It was all up to him.
The Kollel Guy (Part 2)
Posted by Talmudist in Story Section on March 17th, 2009
Yonah eyed his gemara; the letters on the page in front of him started to lose focus, and instead of producing one of those 3D-images found in the Sunday funnies, they simply cluttered into a formless glob of gray. He was startled out of his lacking-in-content-daydream when Arnone suddenly showed up, yelling some some sort of out-of-the-gutter-sounding Farsi salutation/stream of words into his right ear (Yonah had no hearing in his left ear, something that Arnone magically picked up on the first time they met).
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?
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.
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.
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.
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