I awake to a headache inducing cacophony of alarm clocks and kosher phone alarms blaring simultaneously. Joining together in glorious unity with a single purpose- to wake up the oilam. And wake up we do. My hand blindly gropes for my own electronic phone/alarm blaring out its ugly polyphonic rendition of Fuer Elise. Automatically, my [...]
Below find an unusually heartwarming exchange between this blogger, and a precocious five year old. Wow. Bava Basra 12b: The Adorable, Beautiful Girl R. Yonason said: Since the Temple was destroyed, prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to fools and children. -Bava Basra 12b Tali: I play with invisible people. Chana: Yes? And do [...]
The main cheilek of these are Yeshiva related ones, and after the separation bar toward the end, find some Jewish, but non-Yeshiva related ones.
Apparently. “There’s a hafganah tonight!” One of my diramates is gushing (do bochurim gush? Or only women?) on and on about the huge, massive demonstration taking place near Kikar Paris to protest the building freeze set into place by the formerly hawkish government. “So, nu, Yeshiva Guy, are you going? I hear there is some [...]
Before you begin the Yeshiva Guy course in Beigel Busting, you must first learn what a Tuna Beigel is. A Tuna Beigel, or Beigel for short, is a colloquial term for a (former) member of an Ultra-Orthodox Chassidishe sect. Typically speaking, they are slightly clueless about the outside world due to their insulated upbringing. Technically, they [...]