Sublime

The options are these: become an academic, a rabbi, or Orthodox.

shifting the operative frame of the American Jewish experience from one of institutional preservation to one of communal empowerment.

I don’t quite know what to say, so I mostly listen. I’ve found during the past forty-eight hours with Gail and Colin that my role as their rabbi is less to dispense wisdom—I wouldn’t dare—and more to engage in the very holy work of not running away.

The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.

You may not have regular weekday services to attend, but you could always join a synagogue or church or a sports or civic group in order to become friendly with more people.

Rabbi Louis Rieser.