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A lot of why I haven't been posting much lately is that, unlike in days of yore, I haven't had much access to computers in my day-to-day routine this summer. I wake up, rush off to a hevruta session, go from there to another one, have perhaps a work meeting in the...

So I'm finally doing Phase Two of settling into my apartment--finding places for all the bits and bobs that've been lurking in the corners. This requires going into the cabinets in which I crammed all my stuff and taking things out, so that I can make some space for...

When I first got to Israel, I was involved in several confusing moments because I reverted to Talmudic Aramaic when I should have been using Modern Hebrew (most amusing: not long after getting to Jerusalem three years ago, flustered because I had just realized that I...

Oddly, the 50 dappim (2-sided pages) I'm learning this summer for my test are chock-full of demon stories. Some of them I've met in the past, some are new. Here's some wacky stuff from Brachot 6a about how to enlighten oneself about the presence of demons in one's...

A haircut from the guy who never screws it up Internet at home! Wifi, Baruch Hashem. Well, a hilarious thing: The sound of my voice after weeks and weeks of horrible bronchial cough, recording (about a month ago) a bunch of niggunim/melodies I was determined not to...

Computer: fixed Car: In one piece (Baruch Hashem!) and at the car doctor right now for a checkup Friends: Fabulous, of course Service Charges: Rampant Customer Service: Really great, even when those smies are blatantly fakey fake and you know that the smilers are...

Gee, I'm tired.

I've had some incredible Shavuots, both here and in the States, but for some reason, every year that I celebrate it in Jerusalem (this is the third or fourth time), there's some limitation on me. This is at least the second time I've been too sick to be able to stay...

Once again, a bunch of very smart and wonderful people are set to enter the Rabbi-Tron (the magical ordination machine) tonight. This is always a momentous occasion, this one all the more so for me personally since I began rabbinical school with a whole bunch of these...