There were only about 5 magazines that we could actually subscribe to in yeshiva, Sports Illustrated was one of them. One of the jobs of the secretary was to filter out any pritzus that would wind up in our legal…
Tag: Yeshiva memories
30 of the most important things I learned in yeshiva
Let me preface this post by saying that I probably would have learned most of the things had I not gone to yeshiva, but going to yeshiva definitely provides an education that is seldom matched elsewhere. Yeshiva graduates are definitely…
Yeshiva memories: The brilliant use of tissue boxes
Tissue boxes are almost like the yeshiva guys version of the Swiss Army Knife. Not only are tissues used as book marks, nose picking devices, bugger receptacles and notepads, but the boxes themselves were also used as many things. Typically,…
Yeshiva Memories: Sleeping in shiur
I sat alert for about ten minutes and then the rebbe started pacing, at this cue I arranged my gemara, mishna brura, notebooks and a mesilas yeshurim in a way that would hide the fact that I was dozing off.…
Yeshiva Memories Video: Room Searches
Ever since I started making videos again a couple months ago, I decided to approach some of the topics I have written about from a talking perspective and I kind of like the randomness. As always the videos are raw,…
The never ending towel and other gross yeshiva musings
There are some pretty disgusting things that go on yeshivas, but what else do you expect when you throw a bunch of ill mannered frum guys who never learn how to clean up after themselves into a yeshiva dorm together?…
Yeshiva Memories: Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes
I have yet to smoke a cigarette and only took my first hit off a join at the age of 27, yet from the age of 12 I was surrounded on a consistent basis by smokers, stoners and avid drug…
Yeshiva Memories: NCSY stands for No One Can Save You
Not only were girls considered evil according to my yeshiva, but theOY run kiruv organization NCSY was considered doubly evil because they sought to make kids frum by putting on coed events led by so called orthodox Jews. The yeshiva…
Just a small piece of my Yeshiva Memoir
My friend Matthue offered to edit a chapter of my yeshiva memoir so I could get going on writing the darned book already, for some time I have been struggling with an opening chapter, I have a file full of…
Yeshiva Memories: The Girls
It’s Tu B’Av, so I figured I would write something about girls. In my second year of high school an amazing thing happened, Rochester got its very own girl’s school and us yeshiva boys were ecstatic. We couldn’t believe our…
Reject Yeshiva Memories
I was thrown out of the dorm in my last year of yeshiva for selling a stack of maxim magazines to this kid we nicknamed freezer boy after this incident. He was hiding his magazines in the freezer, and one…
Yeshiva Memories: The Modern Orthodox In-Towners
The in towner kids were of a special variety in my yeshiva, many of them came from modern orthodox families that would have never even looked twice at a black hat reject yeshiva if it weren?t for the fact that…
Yeshiva Memories: Purim
There were endless bottles of wine at the table and a keg of beer in the kitchen, red cups filled with beer were passed around, but nobody seemed to want any. I was at a college purim seuda and no…
Yeshiva dinner thoughts
After three phones calls from a former rebbe asking me to attend my yeshiva dinner, I decided to go. I was in New York for a wedding that weekend, and figured I should at least make an appearance and decide…
Yeshiva Memories: My class trip
My 12th grade class trip is nothing to boast about, but as the years go by I realize more and more how yeshivish of a vacation it was. We went to the Pocono’s, rented cabins and grilled. What’s the deal…
Yeshiva Memories: Sports
Yeshiva Memories: Goyishe Music
The door flew open and I immediately took the tape out of the deck and hid it under my covers. I was lying in bed listening to Dream Theater’s Images and Words Album, I was blown away by it, it…
Yeshiva Memories: The dorm councilors
Contrary to what many people may think, my years in yeshiva were some of my best, I made friends that would last a lifetime and learned some invaluable lessons ? like the best places to hide porn and that you…
Yeshiva Memories: How to check a book to see if its kosher?
The first day of yeshiva was devoted to the general assembly in which we all sat down and learned what rules the yeshiva had instituted to make our lives as miserable as possible. These ranged from checking with the dorm…
Yeshiva memories: Getting free catalogs in the mail
One of the most joyous occasions in yeshiva for many folks including myself was when I got something in the mail. I wasn’t cool enough to get letters from girls (which would be opened by the secretary and read aloud…
Yeshiva Memories: Saturday Nights
Prior to moving back to Rochester for College I didn’t realize what a cool town it could be, the Rabbis took those realizations away from me with such a force that the only things we could do at night were…
Yeshivish movies
There are many yeshivish things, potato chips, cars and yarmulkes can all be yeshivish, but movies are never really thought of as yeshivish. Fact is that any yeshivish school worth its weight in shidduchim will throw you out and force…
Yeshiva ad journals suck, why can’t they just have yearbooks?
What the heck is the deal with yeshiva dinner ad journals, is it just me or can we all agree that they are one of the stupidest/suckiest things ever!!! For all of you who don’t know what an ad journal…
Did your yeshiva have a big macher?
One year he decided to buy candy canes, but this wasn’t your run of the mill after Christmas sale at Rite Aid, this was a truckload of candy canes, he got a good deal. He always got good deals, this…
Yeshiva memories: Trips to the sort-of treife donut shop
It wasn’t just an ordinary jelly donut with powder on top, it was a wonderful thing this donut, a taste of freedom, a taste of normalcy – mostly because it wasn’t allowed. It wasn’t allowed for political reasons, for philosophical…