American - Clergyman | July 29, 1977 -
I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.
Meir Soloveichik
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I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.
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The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.
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We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
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Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.
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Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
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The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'
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To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.
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Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.
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Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
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The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.
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God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
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