How to keep your shit together?
Or – what to do when the shit gets so high around you, it’s as if it is permanent?
A rabbinic discussion around toilets and tefillin – what are we talking about here? Well – first off, we really are talking about crapping with ritual objects. Jewishness is not afraid to “go there”. In fact – this too is torah – how to treat that which helps us be holy around semen (discussion on previous page) or excrement (this page) is not only necessary and legitimate, but should be discussed at length, to make sure we don’t make a mistake. And whatever embarrassment is in the conversation must be faced – because embarrassment should never get in the way of education.
On one of those previous pages (on the subject of accidental ejaculation) we have a situation where a bunch of students knows that their teacher is in a state of impurity because he had an accidental ejaculation in the night. While I am not sure I ever want to be that close to my students that they would know something like this about me, I envy the educational environment which can make space for this kind of intimate learning experience.
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