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" I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much. "
Meir Soloveichik
Stick
Will
Day
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" I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. "
Meir Soloveichik
Serve
America
History
" Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues. "
Meir Soloveichik
Faith
Result
Disagreement
" The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. "
Meir Soloveichik
Election
Him
God
" We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. "
Meir Soloveichik
Golden
Book
Flowers
" Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not. "
Meir Soloveichik
Son
Either
He
" To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Wine
Real
" Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. "
Meir Soloveichik
Gratitude
World
Thanksgiving
" Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him. "
Meir Soloveichik
Him
Other
Wife
" Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding? "
Meir Soloveichik
Know
People
Forgiveness
" For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state. "
Meir Soloveichik
Spiritual
Blessed
Catholics
" Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality. "
Meir Soloveichik
Two
Nothing
Will
" For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. "
Meir Soloveichik
Only
God
Jews
" In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. "
Meir Soloveichik
Power
America
Economic
" God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity. "
Meir Soloveichik
Desire
God
Identity
" Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful. "
Meir Soloveichik
Love
Always
Hate
" There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people. "
Meir Soloveichik
People
Play
History
" While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others. "
Meir Soloveichik
Believe
Wrong
Others
" Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us. "
Meir Soloveichik
Loving
Love
Learn
" The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. "
Meir Soloveichik
Moment
Debate
God
" Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God. "
Meir Soloveichik
Embodied
Will
God
" Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Reflection
Love Is
" The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' "
Meir Soloveichik
Moment
Mind
Religion
" Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. "
Meir Soloveichik
Living
Bear
Children
" I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right. "
Meir Soloveichik
Always
Right
Lot
" Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. "
Meir Soloveichik
Continuity
Marriage
Love
" To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Church
Christian
" As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World. "
Meir Soloveichik
Ocean
Back
Group
" The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation. "
Meir Soloveichik
Death
Calendar
See
" We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government. "
Meir Soloveichik
Freedom
Gift
God
" Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud. "
Meir Soloveichik
Forth
God
Jews