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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Rabbis Thirsting For Honor
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. I was a preacher’s kid. I knew dozens of clergy. Almost all of them said they felt a divine call to become a pastor. By contrast, I don’t know any rabbis who felt a … Continue reading
Posted in Hafetz Hayim, R. J. B. Soloveitchik, R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, Rabbis
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Gay Torah Scholars
Are there or have there been great Torah scholars who are gay or bi or never married? Marc B. Shapiro says: “There must have been great Torah scholars who were gay or bisexual, but this is not the sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Marc B. Shapiro
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Corporate Pranks
A friend posts to FB: Need to interview a branding and marketing expert about corporate pranks on April 1. Looking for someone who can speak to the topic in broad terms and not just promote their own client. I post: … Continue reading
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The Ignorant Spend Their Time Online Instead Of Learning Torah
In his second lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: There’s a whole school of thought that says aliyah (moving to Israel) is not important until the Messianic era. I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Marc B. Shapiro
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The Great Controversies Of The Chofetz Chaim
The Chofetz Chaim was a European Orthodox rabbi who lived at the turn of the last century. According to Wikipedia: “Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dziatłava, 1838 – Radun’, 1933), known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Lithuanian Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Gossip, Hafetz Hayim, Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy
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