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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.
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.
Ode To Lethargy & More
Posted by Talmudist in Scatterbrained Posts on March 20th, 2009
According to Dr. Melfi (from The Sopranos), post-millennial sociologists posit that twenty-six is the new twenty-one. I was speaking to a friend yesterday who is my age; he expressed his sense of catharsis upon hearing such (supposedly [and surely subjectively] true) news. ”Great, I get a five year period of wasted time that I can pretty much nullify; I can feel pretty proud about the fact that I’m twenty-eight and am a (very) recent college grad without much to show for myself,” he declared.
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 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.
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