Posts Tagged yeshiva
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.
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).
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