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Today I am
60% rabbi.
because of course
doing even the tiniest little errands--closing my Netvision account, for example--has to be a gigantic freakin' ordeal. It's bizarrely reassuring (and also a bunch of the opposite) to know that it is, in fact, every bit as frustrating and annoying to deal with (insert...
Next thing’s next
My last Shabbos in Jerusalem for the time being was so beyoootiful I can't even find words. Davvening in a backyard filled with trees and flowers, bare feet in the earth, lots of people, a bat mitzvah girl leading with some startling choices of niggun, starting early...
more on halakha
See, then I start thinking about all this halakha stuff, and I find that there's more to say. My friend Ahud says that he considers halakic living to be in part, a form of a social contract. Kind of like like believing that a state should have laws, even if we...
halakha is your friend
So there's an interesting debate happening in the comments section of the post from last week about niddah/menstruation stuff and halakha in general, and Jordan made a comment that I wanted to respond to, but since it's kind of a global thing, I thought I'd just...
still here
just in the middle of finals. thank you for holding, operators are standing by. today: bekieut exam. tomorrow: world domination. or maybe just a nap and getting back to mikra, we'll see how it goes.
what is WRONG with me?
Why do I enjoy studying hilchot niddah* as much as I do? This can't be healthy. *Laws pertaining to menstruants (and their historical development).
Wait a second!
I'm leaving this country in like 2 1/2 weeks. How did that happen? Weird. I'd have an emotion about it, but there's too dang much to do. And, on that note, maybe I should try to go back and get a little more sleep so that I'm able to do any of it.
Back where we started
That other template was starting to get on my nerves, so I switched it back to the same basic white one that everybody and their dog has. For a reason--it's the least irritating of Blogger's choices. At least I think so, having just a second ago tried on some of the...