Welcome Home
Posted by Yeshiva Guy | Posted in Eretz Yisroel | Posted on 20-04-2010
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A friend was telling me about a certain Mashgiach in a larger old-time out-of-town yeshiva. It seems that the bochurim of this particular place would return for Yomim Noraim every year, to bring back some of the kedusha they experienced in their former lives. Anyway, this Mashgiach would spend time on the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur, greeting and schmoozing with his old talmidim. When he first saw them, however, back in their old stomping grounds and first getting a feel for the yeshiva, he’d give them a big hug, and greet them with a warm “Welcome Home”. Because of course, as every bochur knows, yeshiva is always home, no matter how baalebatish you become.
And so chevra, fellow bochurim, yungeleit, and other various flora and fellows, Welcome Home.
Welcome Home!
Hatzlacha Raba in Limud Hatorah and Avodas Hashem this zman!
And when you do get married, you need not become balabatish. You can be a bochur forever.
Halevai. It seems, however, that statistics, if not the truth, point in favor of this unfortunate fact: once you leave arbah koslei hayeshiva, it’s all over.