Swimming in Rabbinic Texts

I am feeling like I am swimming in rabbinic texts right now- I had my usual Monday 4 hours of Talmud, and now I'm finishing up an assignment summarizing the texts we studied about the musaf amidah for Rosh Hashanah for Codes for tomorrow. It has taken rather longer than I thought that it would, partially because I forgot that a few of the sources existed, and haven't been sure how much detail to give. So- I have three chunks of text from the Tur left, and then I will be done, and can go to sleep.

Tomorrow I expect I'll be a bit sleepy: I have 8 hours of class, then chevruta for Talmud and then a meeting for my job teaching in the interfaith education program. Wish me luck- it'll be a bit of a long day. And I had best find some good snacks without mezonot or such: I won't get to "dinner" until 9pm-ish, I believe.

I am getting very annoyed at the way JTS regulates the sukkot here. What one may bring into each of the two downstairs sukkot changes often, without any labelling, and one is yelled at for bringing the wrong things into the sukkot, when you have No Way of Knowing where one can eat. At breakfast and lunch, one sukkah was open for one's own food, and then my class got yelled at at dinner time for doing the same thing. If they want to assign things differently, fine (although then I don't see the rationale, if the tables, which are covered with disposable tableclothes anyways, are the same that have dining hall trays sometimes and one's own food sometimes- so why not at the same time?, rather like the Brandeis dining hall)- but make it clear to those of us who are not telepathic with the dining hall staff, please. Perhaps I will go suggest the use of signs for next year, if I could only figure out whom to tell. I guess I can start with Student Life and see where they direct me.

Ok, back to the Tur.

Swimming in Rabbinic Texts

I am feeling like I am swimming in rabbinic texts right now- I had my usual Monday 4 hours of Talmud, and now I'm finishing up an assignment summarizing the texts we studied about the musaf amidah for Rosh Hashanah for Codes for tomorrow. It has taken rather longer than I thought that it would, partially because I forgot that a few of the sources existed, and haven't been sure how much detail to give. So- I have three chunks of text from the Tur left, and then I will be done, and can go to sleep.

Tomorrow I expect I'll be a bit sleepy: I have 8 hours of class, then chevruta for Talmud and then a meeting for my job teaching in the interfaith education program. Wish me luck- it'll be a bit of a long day. And I had best find some good snacks without mezonot or such: I won't get to "dinner" until 9pm-ish, I believe.

I am getting very annoyed at the way JTS regulates the sukkot here. What one may bring into each of the two downstairs sukkot changes often, without any labelling, and one is yelled at for bringing the wrong things into the sukkot, when you have No Way of Knowing where one can eat. At breakfast and lunch, one sukkah was open for one's own food, and then my class got yelled at at dinner time for doing the same thing. If they want to assign things differently, fine (although then I don't see the rationale, if the tables, which are covered with disposable tableclothes anyways, are the same that have dining hall trays sometimes and one's own food sometimes- so why not at the same time?, rather like the Brandeis dining hall)- but make it clear to those of us who are not telepathic with the dining hall staff, please. Perhaps I will go suggest the use of signs for next year, if I could only figure out whom to tell. I guess I can start with Student Life and see where they direct me.

Ok, back to the Tur.