{"id":62729,"date":"2021-08-12T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=62729"},"modified":"2021-08-12T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:57:00","slug":"off-the-pulpit-a-typical-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-a-typical-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: A Typical Jew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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To speak of \u201cthe Jews\u201d is as misleading as to declare \u201cJudaism says\u201d when one can almost always find authoritative Jewish sources that say the opposite. We are caught in the normal human condition of ambiguity and ambivalence, with instances of love and betrayal throughout times of faith and times of failure.<\/p>\n

I have known many poor Jews, many wealthy Jews, many Jews surrounded with family, many Jews who were almost entirely alone. What I have never known is a typical Jew. Our tradition tries hard to inculcate traits of goodness, industry, scholarship and family, but we still come in all varieties of the human rainbow. Praise God.<\/p>\n

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

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