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Category Archives: Rabbis
My Frightened Defiant Response To Authority
I’d react identically if my father or my rabbi or my God or my boss posted on my FB page. I’d be frightened that I’d been naughty. It’s weird to me that all my reactions to authority are identical. I … Continue reading
Rabbis Talk Differently To Other Rabbis
In his fourth lecture on Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Wikipedia has everything you need. In the rabbinic world, you don’t have book reviews [like what Rav Zevin did in Sofrim U’Sefarim]. It’s not part … Continue reading
Is My Writing Toxic?
In the first 11 years of my Jewish journey, I never wanted to write anything bad about any rabbi. I revered rabbis. I knew there were bad ones, but I revered the profession as a whole. Then I got kicked … Continue reading
Shais Taub – The Recovery Rabbi
Rabbi Shais Taub tells TheFix: Addicts have the existential pain many of us do, but they feel it more acutely. Normal people have the luxury of being able to live in a state of spiritual laxity and get away with … Continue reading
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
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
Why Aren’t Most Jews Orthodox?
I ask an Orthodox rabbi: “Why do you think most Jews are not Orthodox? Is the principal obstacle difficulty or expense or intellectual or moral? And what did you think of the Newsweek top 50 rabbis list?” The rabbi replied: … Continue reading