Why Don’t Women **** Me Better?

Esquire’s Chris Jones writes: “There is a spectrum of female lovers just as there is of men. The trouble is, most women act as though they’re sexual Olympians, as though they’re doing the men in their lives the greatest of favors merely by presenting themselves like a downed deer strapped to the hood of a car. Some of you are deluding yourselves. Sex is not like pizza. Only ******** are.”

I used to talk a big game when I lived at Rieber Hall at UCLA.

I was working on this explicit novel.

I met an Asian girl across the hall. She read my novel. She pointed out this part that was anatomically impossible.

It featured a woman, a car, and a gear stick.

I thanked her for the feedback.

I’d yet to be with an actual woman.

A month later, my critic was my first.

A few weeks later in our relationship, she said she was feeling insecure because I’d been with so many women. That’s when I broke down and told her the truth that she was my one and only.

She really liked that.

Six years went by. I moved back to Los Angeles. She came over one night with a sack of potatoes. One thing led to another.

Afterward, she asked, “How many women have you been with me since me?”

“About ten,” I said.

“They’ve taught you well,” she replied. “You used to be really awkward.”

“How many have you been with since me?” I asked.

“One,” she said.

Glad to be in LA, I was off to the races. I went to every shul I could. I went to parties. I placed singles ads. I met women. I heard the words — “Let’s get this over with.”

I thought I was pretty special until shortly after my 40th birthday, a woman I’d been with just once started writing these vengeful blog posts about what a lousy lover I was. She called me “Thumper.”

My next girlfriend said she could tell when I was no longer interested in her pleasure and only in my own.

My next girlfriend said I was methodical.

After that, I stopped messing around and took up sex addiction meetings.

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I Do A Page Of Talmud A Day But I Don’t Understand Much

I like to drink a couple of cups of coffee and stand there and listen to the rabbi and I feel like I’m doing something amazing.

I don’t think I’d get up early every morning to struggle over one line with a partner.

In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Where do I hold with daf yomi? I’m not such a fan of daf yomi because I don’t know if daf yomi is a success. Yes, it has revolutionized things but I know people who can’t even read a line if Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and yet they’ve been through shas. Somebody tells me that in another two years, he’ll have been through all of shas. And he doesn’t know anything. He’s an am haaretz. What does it mean to go through shas? There’s a shul. I saw online that they have daf yomi every day for a half hour. I don’t think any shul takes more than an hour to do it. How is that learning? Part of the learning is the struggle and trying to understand it. If you just sit there and someone speaks quick words, you can’t follow it. I think I have a pretty good head. I’ve tried to listen to some of these shiurim and I’m thinking about what the maggid shiur said and he’s already two lines down. It seems to me that daf yomi is really ritual. It’s like going to a minyan. People feel they’re participating in something.

I’m not impressed by people who say they do daf yomi.

Learning has to be an active pursuit. It’s not passive. It’s not listening to a sermon. It’s not listening to someone else speak. You have to struggle over it. With daf yomi, there’s no struggle.

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South Carolina teen’s brutal soccer attack earns assault charge

In this video, a black girl beats up on a white girl for no reason, but the white girl will get no media sympathy. But if it had been the other way round, the news media would be all over this story. There’s far more black violence directed against whites in America than white violence directed against blacks but one type of violence gets mega coverage and the other type of violence is largely ignored.

I am equally opposed to both types of criminal violence. I don’t think America is a racist country even though there are some racists (of all colors) in it.

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Conversion Before Modern Times

In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Chaim Ozer Grodzinski said that even if you acknowledge you have desires and will commit certain sins, that does not void your conversion to Judaism. This is the standard approach to conversion among poskim (great rabbis) before modern times. Especially for marriage. You don’t ask many questions. Especially if they’re living together or are about to live together. You convert them and you try to keep them as religious as you can. You never had this idea of conversion classes. You don’t make it difficult to convert them.

Western Jewish intellectuals such as Louis Jacobs (see the chapter in his book A Jewish Theology) and Yeshayahu Leibowitz were attracted to the thought of R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, who showed humanistic tendencies and tried to soften some of the Biblical villains.

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Arrested Drunk Guy Sings Bohemian Rhapsody

This video was shot before I shaved.

Youtube: i love this guy. how he calms himself down after 5 minutes of savage singing… and then THE BEST THING EVER AT THE END, “will you be violent?” and he replies almost with disguist “phhh,physical violence is the least of my priorities” like his mission is to bring peace and save hunger hahah, love this guy!

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Rabbis Looking To Get On In Life

In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: In 1906, Rav Meir Simcha was asked by the leaders of Jerusalem to assist Rav Shmuel Salant as rav of Jerusalem. He wanted to take the position but the people of Dvinsk wrote a strong letter to Jerusalem complaining.

That’s always a problem. In those days, they loved their great rabbis. Rabbi would usually move up and they’d complain that another city is taking their rabbi. The rabbinic contract was such that the rabbi could always get out of it and the rabbis always did get out of it. They were always looking to move up. Rabbinic salaries in Eastern Europe were poverty wages. Yeah, they gave you a house but little money. If you got a job in a bigger city, you moved up in the world.

Is it any different than today? I don’t recall any examples from America where the rabbi wants to go to a bigger city and the other town writes and says, don’t take our rabbi!

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Rabbis Thirsting For Honor

I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. I was a preacher’s kid. I knew dozens of clergy. Almost all of them said they felt a divine call to become a pastor.

By contrast, I don’t know any rabbis who felt a divine call to be a rabbi. Instead, it seems to me that for most of them, the rabbinic position was the one most congenial to their talents. It was the easiest and most enjoyable way for them to earn a living and to advance in the world.

It strikes me that most of the public faces of Judaism in the world today, including most of the gadolim Yisrael, chose to become rabbis because that was their best opportunity for feeling like a big shot. Just as I’ll do most anything for attention, so too the great rabbis became rabbis principally because that’s the endeavor where they get the most positive reinforcement.

Just as a plant grows toward the light, so too most of us choose things based on the rewards that the world gives us for our choices. Life has a way of sorting us out and channeling us in directions where we have expertise.

Some rabbis were truly saintly. The Chofetz Chaim and the Chazon Ish come to mind. I think these guys really wanted to be of service. For most of the rest of the great rabbis, that position afforded them the most chance for honor.

Think about Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik. He did not want R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg to come to Yeshiva University after the Holocaust because that would’ve taken away from JB’s honor. And Rabbi Weinberg did not want to go to anywhere where he would not be the number one gadol.

Almost every great rabbi has a great ego to rival that of any Hollywood star.

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Gay Torah Scholars

Are there or have there been great Torah scholars who are gay or bi or never married?

Marc B. Shapiro says: “There must have been great Torah scholars who were gay or bisexual, but this is not the sort of thing you can ever be specific about if the people themselves don’t talk about it. But these men would still have been married as every Jew was expected to get married. These great Torah scholars, while they might have been gay, would not have been active homosexuals. I.e., they would have followed halakhah. It is very difficult to find a great Torah scholar who never married, as having children is an obligation. (Ben Azai from the Talmud is an exception.)”

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Corporate Pranks

A friend posts to FB: Need to interview a branding and marketing expert about corporate pranks on April 1. Looking for someone who can speak to the topic in broad terms and not just promote their own client.

I post: I’ve got a few minutes if you call me now.

My friend messages: What’s your expertise in corporate marketing? I know you from other things.

Luke: I’m kidding.

Friend: Yeesh. That’s 10 seconds of my deadline I won’t get back.

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The Ignorant Spend Their Time Online Instead Of Learning Torah

In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: There’s a whole school of thought that says aliyah (moving to Israel) is not important until the Messianic era.

I was looking on the internet today [on one of the Jewish news and gossip sites, perhaps VosIzNeias]. A.B. Yehoshua gave a talk that said that only Jews who live in Israel are real Jews. Those who live in the diaspora are half-Jews. And you have all these am haaretzim (ignorant ones) criticizing him and they’re all ignorant because they spend all their time on the internet instead of learning Torah. Not one knew enough to point out that A.B. Yehoshua — no Torah scholar — was giving the Ramban‘s position.

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