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Yeshivish? Does this word describe anything in the real world? I never saw this word in the Gemara.
As for me, I’m an Eretz Yisrael Yid, a lamdan, a moreh tzedek for my town, living a life most of you would describe as “blacker than black.” I call it living in accordance with the gedolei Acharonim. I also read eleven languages, including Latin and Greek, which is how I make my living. I listen all day long to music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque periods, because the Gemara, Rishonim, and Acharonim teach a strong heter for this. I like Impressionist paintings, provided they’re tzeni’us. Where is there an issur for this?
People sometimes claim that I live “in two worlds.” I ask them to show me a second world; I know only of one, that HaKadosh baruch Hu created. Learn lots of Torah, learn each sugya aliba d’hilchesa, ask lots of questions, get answers from your Rebbes, then live the way that emerges from the sugya. As far as I know, this is what Yiddischkeit is all about.