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You'll Always Be Our Rabbi? What Does It REALLY Mean? #shorts
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Are declarations of enduring connection sincere when ties to a religious community have faded? This explores the weight and meaning behind such poignant phrases. #Rabbi #ReligiousCommunity #SpiritualJourney #Belonging
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Agree with you 100%. And
I definitely won't get in trouble for
saying this at this point in my career.
So I'm going to say it. The number of
people over the past several months who
have commented to me more to my wife, um
you will always be our rabbi.
Uh for case in point, yeah, I'm I'm
planning on being in Eretz Yisrael this
summer.
Um and continuing to serve in some
capacity as a rabbi, but it'll be
different. Uh and on the one hand, we
appreciate that very much when people
say you'll always be our rabbi.
There will be other rabbis. Hopefully
I'll have a wonderful success. There
will be an even better rabbi. Wonderful.
But in some of these situations, these
are people who have we you know, they
haven't davened in our shul in
in years.
And I know that they mean it. And on the
one hand, that but it but it also leaves
us sort of wondering, what does it mean
for you that we will always be a rabbi?
On the one hand, thank you. Thank you
very much. But wouldn't our relationship
be so much more enriching enriching
mutually
if we spent more time with one another?
But if if you're davening
in your neighbor's backyard
every
Shabbos,
what am I to do?