Studying at the Beit Midrash: Days 1 & 2 & Pixie's allergies
Hello out there!
Pixie's oral challenges went really well. We have added soy, peanuts and seeds to her diet. Yay! We will be challenging tree nuts and whole, lightly cooked eggs in august.
I had a wonderful first day at the beit midrash. I'm definitely a bit out of my league, but that just makes it all the more fun. I loved my biblical hebrew class, and my class on Choni and the positive commandments of shabbat (we are spending the next four lessons in that one just studying Kiddush. Awesome). My class on gender and Judiasm rocked my worls - the instructor is a woman who is an advocate in israel trained to go before the rabbinic courts on behalf of agunot. She quoted Catharine MacKinnon and other 2 wave writers. Fun!
Today I had a class on bible and parshanut focusing on Exodus. I hate it. My teacher won't allow me to use translations of the commentaries even tho I'm the only woman there who didn't go to day school and don't have vocabulary. She was unreasonable, and worst yet she does my lecture in the class before on the weekly portion which went on so long that Ihad no time for lunch; it also left us with no chance to discuss the text.
My Midrash class was much better. I had a great study partner (a second year rabbinic student) who freely gave of her time and knowledge. The instructor was funny, and had a wonderful way of making the midrash accessible.
Well, tomorrow is an early day. I'm in an hour before class for a lesson from a classmate on laying teffilin.
Pixie's oral challenges went really well. We have added soy, peanuts and seeds to her diet. Yay! We will be challenging tree nuts and whole, lightly cooked eggs in august.
I had a wonderful first day at the beit midrash. I'm definitely a bit out of my league, but that just makes it all the more fun. I loved my biblical hebrew class, and my class on Choni and the positive commandments of shabbat (we are spending the next four lessons in that one just studying Kiddush. Awesome). My class on gender and Judiasm rocked my worls - the instructor is a woman who is an advocate in israel trained to go before the rabbinic courts on behalf of agunot. She quoted Catharine MacKinnon and other 2 wave writers. Fun!
Today I had a class on bible and parshanut focusing on Exodus. I hate it. My teacher won't allow me to use translations of the commentaries even tho I'm the only woman there who didn't go to day school and don't have vocabulary. She was unreasonable, and worst yet she does my lecture in the class before on the weekly portion which went on so long that Ihad no time for lunch; it also left us with no chance to discuss the text.
My Midrash class was much better. I had a great study partner (a second year rabbinic student) who freely gave of her time and knowledge. The instructor was funny, and had a wonderful way of making the midrash accessible.
Well, tomorrow is an early day. I'm in an hour before class for a lesson from a classmate on laying teffilin.
