Chillin At Rav Ron's House!

Every other month or so, they take groups of us to different staff members houses.  Tonight a group of us went to Rav Ron's house in Ne've Daniel. He teaches me Derech Hashem on Wednesday afternoons. http://sarasisraelexperience.blogspot.com/2011/12/derech-hashem-gods-oneness.html
He's a really cool and funny guy and his class is so interesting.  We came into his house at about 8:30 and after we all sat down, he began to show us some of his scrapbooks.  He had such an interesting life because he did so many unusual things and so many crazy things happened to him.  First he showed us a couple of cartoons that he drew.  He drew one about Bulimia Girl which was quite funny and there was another one that he drew about the ghost of an arm that got chopped off of a famous general and liked to play pranks on people.  He then showed us his subpoena and told us about this girl Carol who was stalking him.  She would follow him and call him and talk to everybody in the neighborhood about him.  But then he moved to Israel so he never heard from her again.  Then he told us the story of how he had to go to the local jail and testify as to whether certain inmates claiming they were Jewish, were or weren't. These big, black, bald guys all pretended to be Jewish so they could be moved to the nicer cells where they would get kosher food.

Next Rav Ron showed us a few of the times that he was on tv.  He lived in Richmond, Virginia for a few years and he was the Rabbi of the only shul there, so anytime something happened with Jewish holidays of the synagogue, he would be on the local news channel. While watching these clips, he served us Oreo cake and chocolate covered pretzels. He was also on the show The Weakest Link.  He's really smart, so not only did he know so many of the answers, he also kinda figured out how to cheat the system.  He realized by watching lots of episodes that people who hesitated or stuttered most often got voted off.  He was also really funny whenever the host spoke to him or asked him questions.  In the end he only got runner-up and he didn't win any money.  We were all really sad when we saw that he missed the last question.  We quickly helped clean up and then we had to run out the door because our bus had already been waiting for us for a few minutes.

Everybody loves going to teachers' houses because you really get to know them better and it's always interesting to see where they live and how they live.  Getting close with the people that you meet in Israel makes life long friends and ensures that you will always have a place to stay if you ever come visit.  Shalom V'lehitraot!