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Category Archives: Rabbis
Do You Believe In God?
I don’t remember a rabbi ever asking me if I believed in God or what I believed about God or, in fact, what I believed about anything religious. When I asked the editor of a Jewish newspaper if he believed … Continue reading
Writing Biographies Of Great Rabbis
Jonathan Rosenblum writes: More than twenty years ago, I wrote an op-ed entitled, “Are Gadol Biographies Good for Us?” Little did I dream at the time that I would soon be asked to write the first of many biographies of … Continue reading
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LA’s Chabad Rabbi Comic
From Wikipedia: Mendy Pellin is a Hassidic comic with a web-based satirical news show called The Mendy Report. Pellin was born to a Hassidic family in Denver, CO. He spent most of his childhood growing up in Crown Heights, NY, … Continue reading
Do You Behave Better On Your Own Or When You’re With Others?
Hanging out with Rabbi Rabbs on Shabbos, he read to me a few sentences from Rabbi Avigdor Miller who said that you should spend as much time as possible on your own so that you are not dragged down morally … Continue reading
Rabbinic Autobiography
The great rabbis have not been given to writing honestly and openly about themselves. The great exception (though R. Aryeh Leib of Modena also wrote an open autobiography) is 18th Century rabbi Jacob Emden, a subject of the 1988 Harvard … Continue reading
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