Last week Rabbi Moshe Tendler came to speak at penn on “torah meets madda”. The speech was a little on the dry side (although he did make his opinion abundantly clear in a manner which is frequently only aforded to those who have gained enough wisdom that they no longer care about blunting their words). One of the interesting things was at the end when a student asked if rabbi Tendler has indeed once taken a piece of matzah to a laboratory to see how much unbaked flour was really in it. Rabbi Tendler disavowed the story (he had apparently never heard of it or concieved of anything quite like it). He then spent about 10 minutes explaining why people who keep the minhag of gebruchts were wrong. In the middle of it he paused and asked the audience if anyone kept the minhag of not eating gebruchts. One girl half-heartedly raised her hand and then put it down, probably feeling embarassed. (The funny thing is that given the student body at Penn I would bet there were mroe people who kept that minhag, but were just too embarassed to even raise their hands). Of course as a Yek I appreciated the whole thing.

So this is either a very stupid, or completely brilliant Mario brothers rip-off. I still haven’t decided.