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Are you still in touch with your teachers from seminary?

Yes, I speak to or email them regularly

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Occasionally, like I call before Yomim Tovim or to share a simcha

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Once in a blue moon

[ 6 ]

Nope

78%

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One or two I am in touch with pretty regularly, the others not so much

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Other (explain in comment)

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Total Votes : 84

amother

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 7:52 am

And if so, how long ago were you in sem?

I was in seminary 13-ish years ago, and I’m in touch wi the one teacher a few times a month on average. Other teachers, I occasionally call or email to say hi or to wish them a gut YT.

ShaniF

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 7:56 am

I wish!
The seminary I went to wasn't really the type where you keep up with teachers but I would love to have a teacher I can call.
Was in sem 9 years ago

amother

Freesia

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 7:58 am

No. I liked most of them just fine but never developed any kind of relationship with any of them beyond the classroom.

amother

Viola

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 8:04 am

I am in touch with a 12th grade teacher regularly, not a seminary teacher.
I am extremely close to this teacher, but she is the only one who I have kept up with from all my teachers.

amother

Natural

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 8:39 am

Not at all. I had nothing to do with them even in sem.

amother

Blue

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 8:42 am

30+ years ago.

I see one of them at a weekly shiur we both attend.
Another I see/speak to at least one a week. (It's not just from my side, she calls me.)
A third I see less often, but still fairly regularly.

While the relationship originated as teacher/student, today I would consider them as friends, with an extra flavour of respect.

amother

Chartreuse

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 8:43 am

I was in seminary 25 years ago and have a once a year email correspondence with one of my seminary teachers. In fact, thanks for reminding me that I need to send that email this week!

Iymnok

Tue, Sep 12 2023, 8:59 am

One has a daughter in my daughter’s class. She lives down the street from me. Another sat next to me at a beis shiva today.

amother

Tealblue

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 3:14 pm

I was in seminary 17 years ago.
For most of those years I was not in touch with anyone.
About three years ago I renewed a kesher with one teacher.

amother

Stonewash

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 4:16 pm

I voted Nope and I’m totally not the type. But I had Rabbi Balanson for a teacher, I never developed a particular kesher with him but he told all the girls we could email shailos so I used him as my Rav for a while when I was single. It was very convenient, and very appreciated

amother

Springgreen

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:01 pm

My seminary was hashkafically the wrong place for me and I'm not in touch with anyone except one other girl and my cousin who happened to go there too.

bigsis144

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:04 pm

No but the rebbetzin of my current shul taught me in ninth grade, back when both of us lived on the other side of the country!

I wasn’t particularly close to her then, but it made it easier for me to get closer to her now. She can see the through-line from nerdy, theatrical, earnest 14 year old me to who I am 20 years later.

amother

Jetblack

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:09 pm

No, but now that Rebbetzin David is no longer alive I wish I had kept up with her while I still could!

amother

Mocha

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:13 pm

I email one of my rebbeim with shailos

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