HeyJaredRabbi David Gerber
I have the honor of serving the as a rabbi in the best city in America. I'm dedicated to serving my community and spreading the love and beauty of the people and state of Israel.
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If You’re Still Talking About Genocide... (opens the original)
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I started writing this article yesterday. It was going to be about Google Maps.You’ve seen the videos. Someone opens Google Maps, drops into Gaza, and starts scrolling. Block after block of gray. Rubble where apartment buildings used to stand. Then the caption: this is what genocide looks like.Then this morning happened.A flydubai flight left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 180 people on board. Somewhere over Jordan, the copilot stabbed the captain and tried to take over the plane. The aircraft dropped
The Laws of Shabbat Part 2 (opens the original)
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We will pick the conversation back up this week, after a good opening discussion. Here is what our study group has already determined:Practicality counts. Not as an excuse, but as a category the tradition itself recognizes. The Talmud says flatly that a communal decree only holds if most of the community can actually live with it (Avodah Zarah 36a). Halakhah has never pretended people are more capable of austerity than they are.“Forty less one” might be a tell. The 39 categories of forbidden Sha
Things You Should Read and Share (opens the original)
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Welcome to all my new subscribers. Thank you for taking the time to read my work and engage in the sacred task of Jewish learning. It’s been difficult to find time to write this week as we transition between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, but fortunately I’ve read and seen some incredible things this week. Here are some recommendations:Omer Shem Tov’s Op-EdWhy it’s worth a look: Read this. If you don’t subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, subscribe just so you can read this. Omer Shem Tov was held host
The Crazy Man - A sermon for Yom Kippur (opens the original)
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The Crazy ManA sermon for Yom Kippur morningElie Wiesel used to tell an old story called “The Crazy Man.” It’s about a man who moved to Sodom. Every morning he walked to the town square and called out against the greed, against the cruelty, against the way people had stopped looking out for one another. Day after day he stood there and shouted. Day after day, no one stopped. No one changed. Most people didn’t even glance up anymore.One evening a child stopped and watched him for a while, then fi
What Does It Mean to Keep Shabbat Today? (opens the original)
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Here’s a sentence that sounds like a technicality and isn’t: the Torah never defines “work.” It bans it, repeatedly, on pain of death — and then leaves the actual definition to be assembled centuries later out of a construction project. Once you see how that definition got built, you can’t unsee it, and a lot of the modern arguments about Shabbat — electricity, driving, instruments — stop being arguments about loopholes and start being arguments about what the whole thing was for in the first pl
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