Ski Bear Compliments one of the Rishonim

 Ski Bear (image 1) frequently notes that his big head is necessary since he has to have a lot of brain power to teach the fundamentals (or maybe the nuances) of skiing.

These fundamentals (or nuances) consist of telling skiers to:


  a. put their skis next to each other like two parallel french fries if they want to go faster, and,



b. put their skis forward point to forward point like a slice of pizza if they want to go slower

this point is made on the T-shirt in image 2.

Ski Bear recently learned of the history of a Talmud scholar from the 13th and 14th centuries who has been called the Rosh by later scholars.

The Rosh is an acronym where the 'R' stands for 'rabbi' and the 'sh' is for 'Asher' as the Rosh's full name was Asher ben Jechiel.  However, "Rosh" also means "head" and, of course to Ski Bear, that signifies something meaningful.

Looking through the accomplishments of the Rosh, Ski Bear said that if only the Rosh hadn't spent so much time studying books like the Mishnah (in image 1), the Rosh might have made a contribution to understanding the fundamentals (or nuance) of skiing. 


As it was, the Rosh actually took pride in not knowing very much outside of Talmud and various halackic subjects related to the Talmud, at least according to the write up available here.