Monthly Archive for October, 2006

amazing shiur

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there was an amaing shiur today.

for sake of introduction:
there are few types of people in midrash. there are some whith take very seriously what the rosh yeshivah sais. they take seriously his way of learning, his hashkafos and beside other thinks… his jokes…. they try to speak like him, imitate him they have inner pleasure of repeating what he said or what he ment.

such person is called a…… “roshnik”.
meyer in normal, completly normal… so once in while he makes somebody “engrave” something on his hear (you trim a latter or a word). last year he had a big ‘M’ (probably for momo…:))

now just few days ago i saw him having somethink new.  it sais, i am not joking, “roshnik” on his head… awesome…
and his kippah is covering the word
the hack (or chack) today was to uncover his (throw away his kippah) head during the shiur so that the rosh yeshivah will see the writting (meyer sits in the first row, as do i… if my seat won’t be taken…).

so one gentleman from florida made few attempts to throw his kippah away… i was laughting strong after each one
by, like the third or so attempt meyer bent his head forward(so he can put his hand on it) and the rosh yeshivah noticed it(and maybe even red the word - there was little time) and starting like moving his kippah little upwards… everybody started laughting… i was like… on the floor… never laughted so much on the shiur…

socond think is that i noted and understood most of the shiur which makes me also very happy…. awesome shiur…

the zman

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i’m very happy of the first week of the zman. i have good chavrusos. i understeand the rosh’s shiur much better. learnig the whole day is difficult, and sometimes i am really tired, but… that what it is about…  it’s awesome anyway

and momo is preety nice to me lately also….

chilling with..

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last week most of the time i was chilling.

the point is that basicaly all the time outside of the dirah and bais midrash i spend with americans.

thay are cool, but i need to warn you: thay require a lot of energy… if you planed to go to sleep at 12 pm, after an evenig with americans you should go to sleep at 11….

yesterday i had a little wrestling competition with nussie (a man of war) - also an amierican and even more… new yorker.. they require even more energy… - and i lost. there will be revenge in ping pong if he won’t chicken out…

looking forwards towards next zman

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i’m already looking forward towards next zman.

the blog is established and works so to write new posts won’t be hard. i’ll try to write as often as.

mr. jubin meraj agreed to learn with me next zman first seder, which is the main think… so i am happy and i think it will work out good….

hatzlocho to everybody in all their endeavors (good ones)
maksiew

new polish-jewish babies

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last week two girls were born to Shpilmans (pl. Szpilan) - a froom familly in warsaw.

a big mazal tov !!!

the challenge

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on the day that i’ve arrived in the yeshivah, almost a month ago, i was tired after the whole journey so i went to sleep about nine. i woke up about 1 PM but the shiur of the rosh starts like 12.45, so i was late.

just to mention, in the shiur they close the doors right after the rosh enters, so if you are late you need to wait outside till he asks for the doors to be opened (which happens usually when somebody knocks on the door)… and when you can come in… you come and everybody looks at you… so i wouldn’t care in the usual state of afars but if it’s my first appear since the beginning of the zman i was sort of afraid of coming in because i am shy and people would notice it and look at me, the rosh would make a comment, maybe ask why did i come back so late or something…

so the polish max (i call him max because that’s when he appeared to be so, not because the country made him so) would just stay in bed…

but not new… whatever max…. so i went to the shiur…

when i came some people were waiting outside till the rosh lets them in. they welcomed me… but i did not notice that one guy wrote on a piece of paper “max is back” and past it through under the door.

so two different “guards” came out and said “max comes in” and so i came.

what happened later is another story…
the point is that i overcame myself and some fears i took the challenge which is a start, or middle stage of new max… strong max… whatever max

and that’s why i am proud of myself

last days of Yom Tov

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first night i davened in chutz la’aretz yeshivah minian and since place where i was supposed to eat my s’udah was going to start late, i decided to “do” some hakafos in regular minianim…

so… first i went to my yeshivah b’nay eretz israel minian and danced and singed with them… then to k’hal chasidim near by… than to rav hagaon Shmuel Auerbach and his yeshivah…

as usual our yeshivah was most crazy, then k’hal chasidim, and rav Shmuels yeshivach just moved in like irregular circle - to normal for me…

than i walked to ramat eshkol for my s’udah - it’s like 45 minutes from my yeshivah…

i came little late to the destination… the host was Jubin Meraj, my friend and chavrusah from prievious year - we haven’t seen each other since i left to poland in the summer.

it was very nice.

than i walked back, tried to learn a little and went to sleep.

lunch next day i ate by Nussie, one of my friends from the yeshivah, in nearby hotel.

second day… i davened in the yeshivah followed by hakafos, proper ones…

than i ate by brother in law of one of guys from my yeshivah and that was really interesting because in ended up that the host is working for mr. ronald lauder (have you heard of him) and we share some common people… and in a way we work for the same person as i also work for lauder on camps and so on… it was the first person from charaidi group who knew somebody from poland… and so i was very happy about it…

than next day i davened in the yeshivah (7.45) and again were hakafos - everything finished like 1.30. momo was reading torah.

than i went to somebody from boro park for s’udah

my yomim tovim were nice, deep and happy and i learned something about myself…

alternative bochrim

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that’s what happened to me during one of my festive meals…
we were eating and everything was fine… - we namely midrash shmuel boys.

at certain point some bochrim came, with rather simple faces, and were welcomed by the host.

they were completely dumb. they were just discussing different rich individuals, where are they from, how much they earn and who are they related to.

i was sitting for like 15 minutes staring at them. i could not believe my eyes. they had nothing else to speak about.

they were completely shallow empty and … crum…

friend to my right said “the rosh yeshivah says money isn’t everything, and they just speak about money”

i said “i make research on them, like rosh yeshivah would do” - the rosh (as i think) is interested in everything and such people are interesting “cases”.

after some time i couldn’t stand it anymore - there was nothing more i could learn

so i benched and left

after i left i met one avrech and i told him about this.. i said that they were so different from us and he said that i should thank God that i’m in such yeshivah as midrash shmuel.

than i went to sleep in my dirah (davened minchah before the s’udah)
than i got up, davened maariv in “tha grah” and saw somebody waving to me from across the street. it was meyer.

so i went to him and started telling him what happened. in middle of me speaking he said “you ate by X.”, he was right, i ate by X. he lift his hand so i will give him “five”
“how did you know?” i asked

“i was there also, and also the XXX[name of a popular yeshivah] guys came… … they are like a different briah”,

“exactly” i said with satisfaction that there is somebody who thinks (at last in this respect) the same way…

so, hereby, i want to thank rabbi Josh Spinner and God (random order) for letting me know and making me end up in such a yeshivah as midrash shmuel.

and to say only that rav Brevdah, reknown speaker in eretz israel, who learned in Kolel Chazon Ish, said when he came to speak in our yeshivah few days before rosh haShanah , that everybody who is in midrash shmuel should analyze himself and check what zechuyos he has that he is in such a yeshivah as midrash shmuel…..

the alternative simcha bais hashoayvah

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Yehuda Dag on of the bochrim of my yeshiva organized yesterday simcha bais hashoayvah in his dirah.

there was a lot of singing.
yehuda made a competition: brought two cokes - regular one and diet one - then took towel and bound it over my eyes so i was not able to see, poured something into a cup and told me to drink the whole cup and then to tell which coke is it? people around were laughing and shouting and said that i should not see(i wandered why? if the coke is already poured so what does it matter if i am able to se it or not?)
… so i started drinking and to my suprise it was fanta with slight “addition”.

what could i do? so i drunk the cup.

and next cup also i drunk(i thought second would already be real - coke) …

we started dancing and singing and some people were giving divray torah.

in any case i think this was for sake of God activity

simchah bais hashoayvah

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yesterday night my yeshivah made simchah bais hashoayvah. it was nice although not that wild like year ago. seems like everything this year with lesser intensity - rosh hashanah, yom kippur…

meyer - active, relaxed american - was teaching me different dances.

we had guests from without the yeshivah… and among them two very prominent : Shlomo from berlin and Yankie from toras simchah - thanks for coming.