{"id":49686,"date":"2019-06-21T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=49686"},"modified":"2019-06-23T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:59:35","slug":"amity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/amity\/","title":{"rendered":"Amity"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JOSEPH H. PROUSER<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, the Talmud insists, Talmidei Chachamim marbim shalom ba-olam \u2013 \u201c<\/em>True Talmidei Chachamim<\/em> are those who enhance and increase peaceful coexistence\u201d (Berachot 64A and Keritot 28B). This passage was deemed important enough to have been incorporated into the liturgy, often recited on Shabbat morning following Ein K\u2019Eloheinu<\/em>. The methodology of Jewish scholarship and learning may be disputation and debate\u2026 but the acid test of a true Talmid Chacham<\/em> is the ability to foster amity\u2026 within the Jewish community and beyond. A self-styled scholar or putative pietist whose personal comportment or manner of communication impedes peaceful relations is no Talmid Chacham<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Amity \u2013 even between those who have differences \u2013 is a sage, core value.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey and the National Chaplain of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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