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Yeshivat Hadar Week 2 Day 2
So since yeshiva started, I've been praying every (non-Shabbat) morning with tefillin.
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Yeshivat Hadar Week 2 Day 1
So, talmud. Brief and not 100% accurate summary: The mishna is an old Jewish text, written in Hebrew, originally transmitted orally and considered by many to be the "oral torah" parallel to / given with the "written torah" (the first 5 books of the Old Testament). The mishna was codified in the first century CE. It's divided into 6 "orders", ( Read more... ) -
Yeshivat Hadar day 4
I'm not really ready just yet to start writing here in any depth about the content of what I'm learning (I plan to start next week), and I feel pretty oriented to how things go, so this is kind of a transition post ( Read more... ) -
Yeshivat Hadar day 3
Wednesdays are lighter days at Yeshiva. I didn't have to be at yeshiva until 8:15 today! (I have to be there over an hour earlier than that tomorrow.) The morning is taken up with some topics lighter than the talmud study that's the feature of most mornings ( Read more... ) -
Yeshivat Hadar day 2
...and the first day when I'm really starting to feel comfortable there. And like it there. I think I get why everyone who's done this before was so excited for me that I was going ( Read more... ) -
Yeshivat Hadar day 1
In bullet point form, because bullets are fast ( Read more... ) -
Yeshivat Hadar day 0
This morning I moved to New York. (Well, kind of. It's just for 8 weeks, but I feel like I brought as much stuff as some people do for real moves.) I had about 90 minutes free to settle in and unload my car before going to the summer's first Yeshivat Hadar programming! (This is what I'm doing this summer ( Read more... ) -
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Update: 4 engagements in the past six weeks, all of whom are either people I see multiple times per month or are in a particularly close set of friends from high school. With a 5th possibly coming very soon ( Read more... ) -
Last night in Twitter
The Phillies played and won a 19-inning game last night. I slept through the last 8 innings, but was able to catch up on Twitter. Here's the best of what I missed:
@philaphillies: link Phils survive a HBP and 3 walks but yield no runs in top of 11th, leaving the bases-loaded. Wilson Valdez to lead of bottom of 11th.
@magelb: link That had to be ( Read more... ) -
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A week ago right now, I was getting an injection (or whatever it's called when they push something into your IV) of a drug that relaxes you and makes you amnesiac. After that (apparently) I got an injection of a drug that puts you to sleep. I fell asleep. I woke up about 45 minutes later, as soon as they wanted me to. And now, a week after that ( Read more... )
