It's not uncommon that when you eat a shabbos meal at someone's house, you're asked to give a dvar Torah. My Rebbe Rav Blachman does not suffice with asking for just any dvar Torah. He says, "Tell me something new, true, and interesting." It's always a bit of a challenge - with someone like Rav Blachman, you can't get away with just telling over a Ramban as he knows right away that's not new. Many of the vortlech floating around while cute, simply can not stand up to any kind of scrutiny, if you try to figure out what they're actually trying to say. (Not that I'm against vortlech in general, I'm just against the ones with no substance behind them.) And as for interesting - who knows what someone else will find interesting?
Well, this is the task I'd like to challenge myself with on this blog. I need to make sure I don't get intimidated by the name, and hesitate to post things because I'm not sure if they're new, true, or interesting enough, but I hope that this name change will do something to frame (in my mind, at least) what this blog is supposed to be.
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The title is too unspecific
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - thanks for the anonymous, unexplained, nonconstructive criticism. Can you tell me why you think it's too unspecific? Can you suggest any better ideas? Can you tell me who you are so I can at least have some kind of idea of what perspective your criticism is coming from?
ReplyDeletei like the name. But yeah, its a lot of pressure. You've basically just agreed to not make your blog a rant, --what a blog usually is. But anyhoo gl!
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for something New, true and interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt may be new and interesting, but it doesn't necessarily have to be true: it could be fiction, and what's wrong with that?
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, the title is catchy; I like it.