Four SEED boys came to Orchard Beach this summer. And the results were not good. They were Shimon, Akiva, Elisha, and another Shimon; students from a small yeshiva in Monsey who were sent to spread Torah “out of town” over…
Tag: gemara
I hate Artscroll gemaras
I like to think of myself as a self deprecating Am Haaretz, but amidst my amaratzus I’ve discovered that I can actually pick up a sefer and learn quite a bit. During my free time you can see me learning…
This is how the gemara was written
I imagine that the following conversation on my facebook wall is exactly how the gemara was written thousands of years ago and don’t think that our discussion is too raunchy for those tana’s back in the day. They have discussed…
Gemara says lingerie is the way to go
I was just talking with a friend in from Israel about the kosher sex toy website and he said with a straight face that a dildo can save a marriage. He also told me that there was a woman in…
If women are forbidden to learn what do they do in seminary?
sIt is only a recent phenomina that women want to learn torah, for many years they were complacent in the kitchen, running their homes, churning the butter, dying in childbirth and tending to the chickens, all of a sudden they…
How do fat people have sex?
Amidst the realization that by not checking my Facebook inbox due to the inordinate amounts of spam I get, I was missing a lot of good links and material, I announced to the world that if they wanted me to…
I learned Gemara on shavuos night and it rocked
My first taste of Gemara was in the 5th grade at Manhattan Day School in Rabbi Gellers class, I don’t remember what we learnt, but from that moment forward I detested Gemara. The issue was plain and simple, I have…
The weirdest gemara ever
I never liked gemara much, but its possible that I wasn’t learning the right gemara. For instance I never learned about the naked guy on the roof who falls into the naked girl and they wonder whether or not she…
I was in the dumb shiur
It wasn’t actually called the dumb shiur, it was called Rucks shiur, but it might as well have been. Not that I wasn’t proud of my status as an “am haaretz” which I never really knew until my friend Yoel…
What words did your Rabbis use to teach sexual topics?
I remember in high school we learned this one gemara about “the hair down there” that told of women having to shave their pubic areas so that the hair should become hardened and cut the penis or ervah as the…