Gems from class

[hatam_soferet]

On pedagogy: "...when you go to school and you are starting to learn chumash, the question is where do you start...we are divided by geography...on that side of the river in Boro Park they start with Vayikra...on this side of the river they start with Bereshit...if somebody would start with Lekh Lekha now that would be interesting..."

And on archaeology in Jerusalem: "Everyone is looking for things...they have found the coat of the cohen gadol and Indiana Jones is looking for the ketoret ha-samim..."