Thursday, November 17, 2005

The Gemara is

real milk chocolate- I love that Hershey bar.

Actually, The Gemara Requires:
deep concentration, creative thinking, patience, energy, fire, the ability to read Aramaic and Hebrew interspersed, a sharp legal mind, durability, endurance, other words based on the (presumably Latin) root dur.

Wanderingstu Has:
a scattered mind, flighty dreams, visions of love, rock n roll on his lips, mild depressive episodes, a lack of patience, and someone elusive and lovely on his mind.

Wanderingstu's encounter with today's Gemara was:
brief, frustrating and unsatisfying.

If a bull chews on a child's hand- evaluate the value of the limb according to the going rate in the slave market. But in Babylonia we do not assess fines, so why even evaluate?

Good question.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've now read the riddle about 5 times, and each time I get more confused. Indeed, what is the rate, and why evaluate based on the slave market? All children are not slaves, after all. What if this child is merely an indentured servant? You then must consider the amount of time left that he is to be indentured. But I digress. I leave you with these words: I ain't no challah back girl!