More Yeshiva Quotes

[cynara_linnaea]

"Breakfast with a potted plant?" -Me

"Not betrothal, which isn't breakfast." -spin0za1

"Can a dead person write a get? Rabbi Meir thinks, 'Sure!'" -spin0za1

"Amoraic tennis; Rava and Rav Nachman, 15 all." -Me

"It's not a locust!" -spin0za1

"How do you buy a cow? Oh geez . . ." -JK, my Talmud rav

"Unless there is some kind of warranty on the cow." -JK, my Talmud rav

Comments

[crewgrrl]

Not that it's that funny, but my chavruta and I used to convert cows to cars when we were leaning Bava Metzia. It makes much more sense that way.

[zevabe]

Of course in Bava Kamma the analogy fails because a damaging car is adam hamazik, not similar to a shor. But converting cows to dogs, which seems a far more beast to own today works perfectly well.

[masteraleph]

With a forklift to pick it up, of course.

[taylweaver]

I laughed. A lot. Keep the quotes coming.

And if JK is who I think he is, I have heard great things about him. (Alas, he did not teach summer session, at least not when I was there)