{"id":53046,"date":"2020-01-24T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=53046"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:31:47","slug":"off-the-pulpit-redeeming-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-redeeming-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Redeeming One Another?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

When I was a teenager, two strangers came to our home. They were Russian, and I learned that they visited to thank my parents, who had helped them escape from the Soviet Union. I have since learned many stories of Jews who helped other Jews, risked their own safety, smuggled goods in and people out, in an attempt to help.<\/p>\n

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Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh<\/em> \u2013 all Israel is responsible for one another. In a world of atomization and individuality, our tradition reminds us that our responsibilities extend beyond ourselves. As the midrash expresses it, one must not say the hole in the boat is only a danger for the one who sits above the hole. We sink or swim as a people just as ultimately, we sink or swim as a world.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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