Due to time constraints, I couldn’t do a new rant on this subject, so I’m just going to refer y’all to this old one- those of you who have time to be reading blogs Erev Pesach, anyway. Here it is, from last year: http://yeshivaguy.com/pom-pesachs-or-pomegranate-passovers/2010/04/02/ Chag Kasher V’Sameach!
The chareidi and yeshivish community is often been described as such. It may very well be that we are those things. After all, the average bochur in a mainstream yeshiva doesn’t know what the most recent behala on the blogosphere is.
News, in its pure form as a medium of delivering information, has always been a wonderful idea. Indeed, the musag of having a grasp of the events that shape the world around us was, to various degrees, was encouraged by our sages.
Shaking my head sadly, it’s almost as if I can hear his refrain set to music. The first few chords, accompanied by the aforementioned fist thump, are as familiar as the sagging walls of Zichron Moshe shtiblach
Only boring, uncreative people read guidebooks…Each and every morning for the past few months my alarm clock has been neither the lyrical chirping of Jerusalem’s parakeets, nor the shrill trill of the standard 20 shekel electric Timex designed to tick the flip out of anyone unlucky enough to be in a 200 yard radius.