Sunday, August 05, 2007

OY, WHAT A QUESTION:
A 100-WORD RELIGIOUS ENQUIRY

Yossel Yourish was one of the brightest minds in the yeshiva.

He was pondering an extremely scholarly matter, one that had been propounded to him by Professor Propis.

He spent days consulting various Learned Texts. The Shulchan Orekh, the Babylonian Talmud, the Torah commentaries of Rashi and the great Rambam: Maimonides himself. Despite all this, he struggled to find an answer.

The question: Was it permissible for a female student to use a bladed instrument to remove superfluous hair from her intimate personal region?

Of course not, decided Yossel at last. You could never shave a beaver at the yeshiva!

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