{"id":65835,"date":"2022-02-04T17:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=65835"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:42:58","slug":"off-the-pulpit-the-true-desciple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-the-true-desciple\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: The True Desciple"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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After many years the two met. The first said to his former friend, \u201cI don\u2019t understand. We had such a magnificent mentor. Why didn\u2019t you live as I have, and remain faithful to the teachings of our Master?\u201d The second answered, \u201cI did. Indeed, I followed his way more scrupulously than you. You see, he grew up and left his Rabbi. I grew up and left mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we are fortunate enough to have figures in private or public life whom we admire, we will naturally share many of their teachings and inclinations. Yet in the end we must each forge our own path in this world. No one else can live our lives for us. We learn what we can from our teachers, and then leave them to become ourselves.J<\/p>\n

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

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