Soul Music

LEARNING CURVE What was absolute halachah what was chumra and what was simply frum social convention? In dealing with not-yet-religious Jews which of my personal standards were immutable and which had some degree of flexibility?

T he yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael that I attended had a really good gym.

That was one of the main reasons I chose that yeshivah.

I certainly didn’t choose it for the learning. The year in Israel was the in thing to do in the Modern Orthodox school I came from but the yeshivah’s Torah classes to me were something to get out of the way so I could get on with the real business of life. Sports. A career.