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Rabbi Lamm on Sukkot, American Orthodoxy, and Materialism (opens the original)
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Adapted from an essay that originally appeared in The Lehrhaus.—Materialism, we know, is an acute problem in American Orthodoxy. I need not rehearse at length the risks of allowing the blessings of prosperity to devolve into an unhealthy preoccupation with wealth: the pressure to keep up with the Joneses, the social strain on children whose families cannot afford a lavish simcha, the neglect of spirituality and intellectual depth, and the lessons children absorb about status and self-worth.[1] B
A New Reading of Ishay Ribo’s Seder HaAvoda (opens the original)
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When Ribo’s song “Seder HaAvoda” was released in 2019, it quickly became a major Israeli hit. By all accounts, it is unlikely material for a popular song. Even for regular shul-goers, the Avoda can be difficult to follow – and not only because we read it so deep into the tefillot on a fast day. Its detailed descriptions of sacrifices, blood sprinklings, goat lotteries, purifications, and garment changes in a Temple that no longer exists can feel remote. Yet religious and secular Israelis alike e
Not Only at Ne’ilah: Ishay Ribo’s Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah (opens the original)
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We usually think of Yom Kippur as radically different from every other day of the year. We fast, wear white, refrain from ordinary physical pleasures, and spend much of the day in shul. We resemble angels, our prayers soaring heavenward. For twenty-five hours, ordinary life recedes and we enter a different kind of religious space.In his early song “Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah,” Ishay Ribo reverses that intuition. Rather than treating Yom Kippur as an exception, he sees it as a model for the rest of the
“If I Were a Prophet”: A Rosh Hashana Master Class in the Art of Rebuke (opens the original)
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Rabbi Lamm’s 1965 Rosh Hashana sermon “If I Were a Prophet” deserves to be studied by generations of rabbis – and preachers more generally. If you haven’t read it, I urge you to do so. And if you ever merited to hear Rabbi Lamm speak, in person or even on video, it’s well worth taking a moment to imagine his rousing delivery. It may well be the most eloquent sermon in the entire 800-strong collection.But “If I Were a Prophet” is noteworthy not only for its soaring oratory
The India Files, Part III: Fish or Cut Bait (opens the original)
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In early 1963, after two years of searching unsuccessfully for a permanent rabbi for India, a new plan began to take shape. Rabbi Zev Gotthold, an official in Israel’s Ministry of Religion who had become one of Rabbi Lamm’s principal contacts in Israel, would travel to Bombay for several months together with Rabbi Elimelech Kushelevsky, head of the rabbinical court in Beersheva. Meanwhile, Haham Solomon Gaon, the Sephardic leader in London who had worked closely with Rabbi Lamm on India, would c
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