Few guys in the yeshivah decided to buy a swimming pool. They wandered where should it be put?
They decided the roof of one of the buildings in which yeshivah rents apartments would be suitable.
So 20 guys gave 50 shek (shekel) each, and they bought it.
One of the guys set it up on the roof let me mention that the pool would hold 5 tones of water) they filled it up with water (it takes like a day to fill it up)… but something didn’t work out so they needed to empty it out and fill it again. So they made the water go from the roof down on a courtyard below…
A lady living in the same building had an thought (not without reason) that it was raining the whole night… Just in the morning the lady was wondering why it was raining only on her courtyard not anywhere else?..:))) So she asked the landlord and the landlord tried to go to the roof… but for some mysterious reason it was closed locked, so he brake the door and saw the whole thing…
And as you know midrash, or you don’t know, next day there were signs all over yeshivah saying ‘the roofs can be used only with explicit permission of r. Dovid Solo…’. actually i’ve fitted in the word explicit, but anyway it was hilarious enough.
click on the photo to see the pictures of the swimming pool.
And Nosson K. estimated the cost of 5 tones of water to be 11 shekel.
The thing settled that they gave back the pool to the shop and they bought a smaller one (one quarter smaller, i don’t see why it makes such a difference)… and everybody seems to be happy with it… and also nobody is complaining….
With all due respect, is Medrash really such a joke of a Yeshiva? I remember that it was regarded quite highly–especially in the early 90’s. What happened? What is it like now? I am curious to know.
Medrash is still an outstanding yeshiva. Like other chutznik yeshivos, not everyone is intense, but those who are into the Rosh Yeshiva’s shiurim invariably become great lamdonim. I know one now how learns in a kollel otherwise populated by the best in Brisk, Telz and Mekor Chaim–HE is the one THEY come to talk in learning. The Yeshiva is centered around R’ Binyomin’s shiur, if you are really into, you will come out a gem.