HeyJaredTalmudical Hijinks
Rants and thoughts of a guy who learns Torah. And maybe some other things too…
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Sleep Deprivation (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAh—sleep; My awaited counting of sheep. I’ve missed my call; Counting them never helped me at all. The clock—strikes! That terrible ticking of spikes Reminds me Of how desperately, I need my sleep. It’s mid—night; I thought that tonight I’ll make right. But oh no! Time is ticking before I can know That’s it’s too late! The only thing that I feel now is hate Towards myself. Why can’t I sleep!? I really need help!
What’s the deal with all of this Uman stuff? (opens the original)
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Rosh Hashanah has just passed us by, and Sukkos is coming up. These are perhaps the most classically “religious” holidays in the Jewish calendar, especially in the modern zeitgeist. People go on pilgrimages, they do ecstatic dancing rituals all night long, etc etc. Whether you li
Depression (opens the original)
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Writing has become… dull. Writing used to be essentially the thing I occupied my time with.Now, I still go through the motions and put out work, but it’s feeling like my output just isn’t what it used to be. I’m aimlessly droning on and on and on with my pen.It’s interesting that when I see other people, whom I often call my friends, writing, I start producing very long and elaborate rough drafts, and they’re almost ready for publishing. But once I sit down to bind the leaves of these drafts—I j
Maariv with tefillin (opens the original)
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Despite how odd it sounds, it is in fact possible to end up wearing tefillin for maariv and have zero “לא הודו לו חכמים” types of problems.How does this end up happening in a non-problematic (in isolation) way?Well, imagine, for a moment, that for a variety of factors, you weren’t able to daven shacharis, either at all or with tefillin, and that the same occurred with Mincha. Well, if you davened mincha before plag, you end up with almost an hour and a half of pure, unadulterated tefillin time t
Bein HaZmanim is over (opens the original)
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So Bein HaZmanim is over. And I can’t believe the first week of the zman is already up!I’m honestly much happier than I expected to be in the place I landed at. There’s a great Chevra, and though it’s a modest number, there’s a nice kol Torah ringing through the walls. We’re learning sukkah right now, and it’s going great! I’ve had the privelege of having the rosh chabura as my chavrusa, at least for now, and we’ve already gone through some great sugyas. Today (like 45 minutes ago1 as I’
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