The Ontology of Yeshiva

A lot of what we studied in Yeshiva was Gomara, which is the arguments back and forth on different halakhas. You know, there's these different rabbis that would argue over what exactly it means and how you're supposed to do it. I thought it was always pretty fascinating. And then I was like the backstories on these rabbis and, you know, some of them have a good mythology to them. One rabbi was, he became the head of the Sanhedrin, but because of his young age, nobody would respect him. So there was a miracle that occurred overnight and he woke up with a long white beard. There's some pretty cool stories