shabbat

I am extremely pressed for time as the Yeshiva is expecting 60 guests for the wedding on Sunday. We are all pitching in to get the place ready for that many people. I will write my blog after Shabbat.
This Shabbat was amazing. It was very hectic, but very fun. I did not get much sleep since I had one of those converasations where you don't want to stop talking. I made it to bed by 4 and woke up around 8, but it was worth it. These next few weeks are also very hectic. Sunday night was a wedding of one of the students so we were all out very late. It was a blast!!! Since this particular student became very close to many of the gadolim (leading Rabbis) of our time, there were many amazing people there including Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, one of the greatest Torah leaders of our generation. For those of you reading this who do not know, there is a mitzvah to make a groom and bride happy on their wedding day. When they walk from the chuppah all the guys at the wedding, especially the guys in Yeshiva, dance in front of them. They are completely enclosed in this huge crowd of people who are singing and dancing as loud as possible. It is hard to describe so I will look for some pictures of it and post them later if I find good ones.
Today the Rosh Yeshiva of Shor Yashuv, a Yeshiva in New York, spoke here. Tomorrow is "Tuesday Night at the Rabbis" where we all go in groups of 4-6 to a Rabbi's home to get to know them and their family a little better. Since one of the students here is moving to Baltimore and leaving on Saturday night, on thursday we are having a mishmar for him. Basically this means we are all going to be staying up late into the night eating good food and sharing words of Torah with each other. Then next Shabbat is another party, this one for the wedding on next Thursday night. There will not be as many people this Shabbat since the groom is from America and it is much more expensive to come to Israel from America than it is to come from England.
Then Purim is coming up right after the wedding. I have the amazing opportunity to eat the Purim meal at Rabbi Reuven Kamenetsky's home. This man is an amazingly learned person. He knows Talmud so well that he can quote Tosofot in different masechtas to answer a question asked in our sugya. I do not know how to explain how wise this man is.
From now on I will be posting on Sunday because so much happens on Shabbat that I feel it would be beneficial to write my weekly blog after Shabbat.