Buy the Cow
His name is Hillel. He arrived in Mercaz late in the year. I don't know anything about him, haven't seen or talked to him in many years. But he has the most brilliant idea I have ever heard in my entire year in Israel.
He has done the research, and found the cost of buying a single cow in Israel. He has done the math, and found out that if he can get enough people to contribute $25 to the cow fund, he can buy a cow, pay for its slaughter, its being cut up, and everyone in Yeshiva who contributes can BBQ fresh cow.
It is a brilliant plan, one that can make him a yeshiva legend if he can pull it off. He starts talking to guys, signing them up to be part of Operation Mercaz Cow.
There is only one flaw. He does not believe there is the need for discretion. There are no Halachos being broken; there are no school rules being trampled upon.
But it has been a long year for Mercaz, and word of the Operation Mercaz Cow reaches the Chief. Rabbi Rotman nearly explodes. He calls Hillel into his office, and puts the Kibosh on Operation Mercaz Cow. It is an operation, he claims that will "Make mercaz the laughingstock of the yeshiva world."
There will be no cow. In its place are disappointment and resignation.
He has done the research, and found the cost of buying a single cow in Israel. He has done the math, and found out that if he can get enough people to contribute $25 to the cow fund, he can buy a cow, pay for its slaughter, its being cut up, and everyone in Yeshiva who contributes can BBQ fresh cow.
It is a brilliant plan, one that can make him a yeshiva legend if he can pull it off. He starts talking to guys, signing them up to be part of Operation Mercaz Cow.
There is only one flaw. He does not believe there is the need for discretion. There are no Halachos being broken; there are no school rules being trampled upon.
But it has been a long year for Mercaz, and word of the Operation Mercaz Cow reaches the Chief. Rabbi Rotman nearly explodes. He calls Hillel into his office, and puts the Kibosh on Operation Mercaz Cow. It is an operation, he claims that will "Make mercaz the laughingstock of the yeshiva world."
There will be no cow. In its place are disappointment and resignation.
posted by Air Time at 12:58 PM
15 Comments:
Instead of Air Time telling stories about all of us, we should start telling some doozies about him, in the comment section
Maybe Air should tell us how he almost ended up on the Dr Kevorkian jury
i don't know if you read this blog, but it is all about me
Or about the time he went to try and get Isaiah Thomas' autograph in a Chicago Mall
You left out the part of how he also dressed up as a cow on Purim. It wasn't just about eating the cow it was about being the cow.
we didnt go all the way to the mall.
Kevorkian, Kevorkian
You absolutly went all the way to the mall, and then you went all the way again, so to speak.
oh that time at the mall.
I forgot about that one. Or maybe I blocked it out.
Don't remember dressing as acow though.
Kevorkian? that didnt happen in yeshiva.
FYI
After Mercaz, Cow Man spent a bunch of years at Ner in Baltimore.
thanks for reminding me martin.
No problem.
I remember that weekend very well. One of those hot and steamy June weekends in Chicago.
It was too bad I didn't get to see Isaiah, but I did get to see alot of other things that weekend.
you know, maybe it would have been better if we saw Isaiah that weekend.
it would have been approptaite to day that R' Rotman 'had a cow' over this...
Very nice site! »
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