Tap on the shoulder

OK, so I'm sitting in the library, going over what we had learned a bit, and the Rabbi comes over and taps me on the shoulder. "Michael?"

"Hm?"

"How long are you intending to stay here?"

"What, in the library?"

"No, in the Yeshiva, how long do you intend to study here for?"

"'Till the end of the month."

"Then you go back to America?"

"Yep." Or so I foolishly thought.

"OK, the other Rabbis were talking, and we don't want you to leave." I put the book down.

"Excuse me?"

"We were talking, and we think you're a nice, normal, optimistic thinking guy, and we want you to stay here for the year." Excuse me? I don't think I've ever been so insulted in my life. Either they completely mispegged me, getting two of the four groupings there completely wrong, or I had just received an oral form letter. Probably both.

So, while not being 100% tactful, I told him that wouldn't be possible. I didn't insult him�but the yeshiva on the other hand�

So, of course, the time passed, well that week actually, I discovered that I wouldn't be leaving the country any time soon. When I told the yeshiva, they seemed to be under the seriously misguided conception that this second year in Israel would be spent in their Yeshiva.

Two weeks before I was set to leave, I discovered their false assumption, (Or just one of there many, I'd like to think.) and told them that though I had stayed an extra month, I would soon be leaving the Yeshiva to go to University.

So, at the end of that class, "Michael, can I talk to you in my office?" Here we go again. But with a twist� "Michael. Before we begin, let me tell you that I don't think I'm going to be able to get you to stay." ^Goody,^ reverse psychology and a guilt trip rolled into one. I got the same drip as last time, same mistakes, except that this time, I also was somebody who had to spend more time there, or I would quickly fall to the wayside when I went to a secular university.

I explained to him my situation at home, and told him that wasn't all that probable.

He told me the yeshiva was in my best interest. I was very tempted to laugh at him right there, and start slamming the place, but I actually respected this rabbi more than the others, so I calmly explained my differences of opinion with the place, firmer this time.

He tried again, and I explained to him that I had severe problems with the direction that the yeshiva took. "Well, I told you I didn't think I'd be able to convince you." ::rumblings of guilt.::

Perhaps I'd actually have stayed there a while longer, if they hadn't been stupid enough to call me optimistic or normal. How off can a person be?

Get me outa here!!!

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Michael Kadish

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