See also, Hashgacha Pratis.
A precursor of things to come...
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much religious. As you can see, I was still very bothered by the absolutely abysmal quality of literate in the Jewish community.
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By C. Yackobovitch
“The will of God is so,” explains the The Kiruv Rabbi in the most non-condescending voice he can muster.
The Pimply Kid before him, plucked from the bottom of the university barrel, nodded stupidly.
“And so,” continued the Rabbi, “It figures...
The kiruv world prides itself in its open-mindedness.
"Ask us anything! We will change our views in a heartbeat if you convince us! Sure you can ask about sex, and no, we don't use a hole in the sheet, we're super progressive!"
This one’s a doozy. Bear with me. Also, if you have a bit of context, you’ll know this ones strike quite close to home. TL;DR at the end.
Here’s how the spiel goes: Judaism is amazing. It’s enlightened. It’s changed the world for the...
Interesting anecdote about this book cover. It's a composite of two different Rabbi faces, i.e. it's not any specific Rabbi, so that I wouldn't poke fun unnecessarily at someone. That's how much of a tzadik I am.
From the back cover:
One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization that as a person I had grown way more from therapy and self-help books than from any amount of “Torah wisdom”.
This was unacceptable to me. I didn’t want...
In the beginning, God created throat cancer and eye parasites and rivers for people to drown in. And He saw that it was mighty swell.
“You see that tree?” asks God.
“Yes,” says Adam, squinting.
“Don’t eat from...
"Never was there as happy a time," the Mishna says, "than Tu B’av. Because on that day all the young ladies would go out to the vineyards to sing and dance, and the dudes would hide in the trees and pick out the one they wanted to...
Even More Freidom
Chapter #12: Darkness
I will not go into detail about this chapter of my life, because it involves...
Chapter #9: More of That
I went back to Zlibermans for a month.
I thought, “if only...
The Book of Life, or Something
“On Rosh Hashanah, we pray to be inscribed in the book of life,” explains Rabbi...
Chapter #3: Mishna
We didn’t have summer vacation at school. We studied every single day of the year....