The part where you calculated that you should actually have 4 1⁄3 pieces of kugel on Shabbat possibly cracked me up even more than the original story. I'm not even sure i know what a kugel is, but that story is hilarious.
I get the impression, from things that you and others day, that an awful lot of rabbis, especially Reform rabbis, are extremely into Granny Weatherwax-style headology. Don't know the answer? It's not an important part of Jewish scripture? Make up something plausible! So as long as you give a nice placebo answer that satisfies the asker, that's just fine.
In fact, sometimes I swear that rabbis compete to come up with the most outlandish things possible and see how far they get!
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I get the impression, from things that you and others day, that an awful lot of rabbis, especially Reform rabbis, are extremely into Granny Weatherwax-style headology. Don't know the answer? It's not an important part of Jewish scripture? Make up something plausible! So as long as you give a nice placebo answer that satisfies the asker, that's just fine.
In fact, sometimes I swear that rabbis compete to come up with the most outlandish things possible and see how far they get!