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.
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.
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