So I’m on a plane flying from one country to another. Like from Armenia to France. Or from Canada to Kenya. A mere transatlantic transposition, right? Except that it isn’t. Not really. There are oceans of difference, actually, between traveling from Eretz Yisroel to anywhere else and a regular country change. The difference is that [...]
Alas. The hour is late. I had wished to detail the difference between the Xtian approach to forgiveness (“turn the other cheek, etc”), and our approach. In a wordy, pedagogical essay worthy of the academia that never would have seen it. Or the Rabbonim that would never see it. Or the Yungeleit who would. Alas. [...]
As I start preparing myself for the flight home, though, I can’t help but feel…sad. I’m gonna be leaving. Yes, I’ll be coming back, iy”H, but still- I’ll be leaving the land of my forefathers. My land.
Like the famous saying about Yerushalmi kids: “When they’re young, you want to eat them up. And when they get older, you regret you didn’t”.
Check out this cool blog about some frum chevra’s college experience’s. Written very well by a set of four or five kids, I still can’t believe it’s authored by frum chevra. Only problem is it hasn’t been updated in a few months…Why??? Excerpt of latest post, titled “For Papa, Make Him a Scholar”: (BTW, is [...]