same old stuff

I have just been pushing on with my thesis now that I have a major deadline; at the moment this means I am busy transcribing interviews a process that i find rather, for rather read very, dificult and boring!

But it is good to have a deadline and it is nice to have a reason to work. On the Knee side it is getting better and I even though I am still in pain and find it very hard to sit at a desk with my legs down I am still making progress.

Knee surgery and rabbi school

In the end I was offered a place on the rabbinic training programme, which is great because i have wanted to be a rabbi almost all my life at least scence I was 10. At first there was a bit of a mix up over what year I had applied to enter but (i think) that that is sorted now...so I have just over a year to finish my thesis, which is very tough but i can do it. I even think that have such a hard dead-line will help me get on with it, which is a very good thing.

On Friday I had key-hole surgery on my knee plus a bi-opsy...the opp. itself wasn't too bad at all but the anaesthetic made me very ill indeed. I should have been able to go out of hospitial that evening but becasue I had been so ill i had to spend the night. I have knee exercise to do and i think it is heeling nicely but it is still quite painful.

But G-D willing I am going to be a rabbi (although not for years-don't ask how old I'll be ;-)

waiting

I am still waiting to hear from Leo Baeck college about the results of my interviews last week although I am not really expecting to hear anything until the 12th which is only two days away. Yesterday I went with mum and dad to hear the Megial read in our local shull some Lubervicters come down from Manchester to conduct the service for us. Today I couldn't go to synagogue.

Spritual issues and Judaism

I am still recovering from the whole interview process and am just getting backing to the flow of normal life. Today I went to the ARK (adults requiring knowlege) which was given by a friend it was on the topic of 'Judaism as a spritual path' which is an interesting topic in and off itself. But I am not sure I would reject the halakhah as he does. It was a very interesting session and has given me lots to think about along with the sessions on Polish Hasidic thought I have been going to.

Rabbinic school Interviews

So I have now had my interviews at rabbinic school and I don't really know what to make of them of the four proper interviews one went well, one badly or possible very badly, and two were just odd. Then there was my meeting with the Jungian anlaysis which which better than last time (well the whole thing couldn't have possible gone worse!)
So in general I am quite happy with it...whether I get an offer or not I think that I was able to be myself and show my best side which is really all I could have asked for isnt it? I also felt that I was able to bond with my fellow applicants much better than last time...altogther there were six of us including myself there was two man (plus me is three) and three girls. All in all I think that we were a rather impressive group.
There was also two additonal group interview/sessions a structered one and a more open one...Both went well in the sturctered one we had to make five minute presentations I think mine was the seconed best but all of us were impresive and it is very dificult to tell how one's own presentation went.
so all in all I am happier whatever happens.
But that said I was very very tired because the process lasted three days and didn't really do anything on shabbat except sleep after dinner, grace/zimmerot...and the next day (today just stayed put) did havdalah. And later will phone some people and do a bit of light reading.