Word: readings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, when I returned to the refrigerator, something was scrawled under the message. It read, "I didn't touch his mother. I swear...
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...sentiment of a prayer, one can accept it and learn from it in a historical-religious context. I reflected on this bit of wisdom from the rabbi several times that evening, and, by doing so, felt a strong sense of unity with many generations of Jews who had read the very same prayers over hundreds of years...
LATER, during the rabbi's sermon, he read a story written by the Jewish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer about a man and his ill-tempered father-in-law. As I listened to the tale woven by Singer, I looked around at the assembled crowd. Everywhere in the world, I thought, Jews are listening to their rabbis. They will pray some more; they will go home and return the next morning to pray; they will fast for a full day; they will break the fast with relatives and friends...
...fact, as the rabbi read his words, Singer himself was undoubtedly seated in another synagogue, listening to the words of his rabbi. At this moment, I felt a strong bond, this time with my Jewish contemporaries...