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...complex elaborations on the same basic themes: mistakes and obsessions. In "Errors" the first of these two tales have been told when Meyer Eunuch, the wise one, interrupts to say that neither were really about errors, but willful malice, and then relates the story of a young man in rabbi school who makes a mistake so bad that his teacher says: "You want to be a rabbi? A shoemaker you should be." The point of the story is that even though the man takes this advice literally, and becomes a cobbler, all works out in the end, because as Eunuch...
...happens: Eunuch interrupts two very beautiful stories--one about Lieb Belkes who thinks so much about Israel that one day he leaves his village and walks there, and another about a simple tailor who becomes a great biblical scholar in only twelve months' time. And Eunuch tells of a rabbi so obsessed with Yom Kippur that he decides to celebrate it every day of the year. This is the strangest of all desires in Passions, most of which are earthy--the desire that is finally closest to being Bashevis Singer's one abiding passion. For as Meyer Eunuch says, "Everything...
Professor Martin Kilson's diatribe (Crimson, November 5) asserts Harvard's Christian tradition is why Rabbi Gold finds no sensitivity to Judaism in University Hall...
...issue is not that Rabbi Gold is unhappy or Professor Kilson is misinformed, but that Memorial Church with its magnificent location and facilities should be of much more use to the Harvard community than it is. The strange thing about Memorial Church is that it neither expresses what Harvard was not what Harvard is. Paul John Rich '59 Minister, The Unitarian Church East Bridgewater, Mass...
...then, within the framework of both the spirit and practice of this delicately calibrated model of American pluralism that I reject Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's militant Jewish thrust in the Harvard community. And though I sympathize with Mr. Epstein's low-profile approach to Jewish militancy, I reject it equally...