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hatam_soferet) wrote2005-03-31 09:21 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2005-03-31 09:21 pm
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Yay, I have another bit of work. It's only writing text into a printed ketubah, but it's still work. The funnest bit is meeting with people and being all professional at them.
Halacha this week has involved a great deal of drawing on the board, and today the drawings got so intense that they covered the whole board and we had to tape big sheets of paper to the wall to continue the drawings. This was highly amusing.
Oh, and Wednesday was nice - a pleasant balance of sofrut, learning the Laws of Hitting People, otherwise known as Makkot, and nattering with Kate.
Daf Yomi is still being the funnest part of the school day, though. My commute is just about the right length to do the daf and Rashi, and this week featured the glorious story where Raban Gamliel (top bod in the school) is mean to Rabbi Yehoshua and the students depose him, deciding at length to install R Elazar ben Azarya in his place. Then they start whooping it up, making laws like never before. Later on, we see drunken partying rabbis - and their temperance chums smashing up the crockery, we see how to pray on a donkey, a bunch of stuff about when afternoon starts, and a little story about the psalm which goes "Then will our mouths be filled with laughter" - Rabbi Yohanan taught that since this verse is talking about a time far in the future when all nations will respect the Jews, it is forbidden to fill your mouth with laughter before then. And Resh Lakish never laughed again.
Resh Lakish was what you might call over-keen.
Halacha this week has involved a great deal of drawing on the board, and today the drawings got so intense that they covered the whole board and we had to tape big sheets of paper to the wall to continue the drawings. This was highly amusing.
Oh, and Wednesday was nice - a pleasant balance of sofrut, learning the Laws of Hitting People, otherwise known as Makkot, and nattering with Kate.
Daf Yomi is still being the funnest part of the school day, though. My commute is just about the right length to do the daf and Rashi, and this week featured the glorious story where Raban Gamliel (top bod in the school) is mean to Rabbi Yehoshua and the students depose him, deciding at length to install R Elazar ben Azarya in his place. Then they start whooping it up, making laws like never before. Later on, we see drunken partying rabbis - and their temperance chums smashing up the crockery, we see how to pray on a donkey, a bunch of stuff about when afternoon starts, and a little story about the psalm which goes "Then will our mouths be filled with laughter" - Rabbi Yohanan taught that since this verse is talking about a time far in the future when all nations will respect the Jews, it is forbidden to fill your mouth with laughter before then. And Resh Lakish never laughed again.
Resh Lakish was what you might call over-keen.