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LETTERS

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No more blame game at Bar-Ilan University and any number from the essays how respected and beloved
of Yeshivot Hesder. We don’t know what he is to so many. My copy of that issue is
I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED your special prompted Rabbi Sacks’ decision to remain dog-eared and marked up and I continue to
tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l in the UK, but blaming everything on the derive great inspiration from it.
edition (Vol. 4, No. 6).
“Charedi-influenced Rabbinate” can’t be
However, I must take exception to one of our go-to answer whenever we are stuck. I had the privilege of meeting this great
man just once and only for a minute. I’d
David M. Weinberg’s comments. While he is Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem heard him give a touching talk about his
certainly correct that many Religious Zion- Jerusalem father in a Jerusalem shul on a Shabbat
ists (myself included) were perplexed that morning some six years ago.
Rabbi Sacks chose not to make Aliyah after
his retirement, his theory that this was due An active choice Encountering the rabbi on a stairwell
to the narrowness of the Chief Rabbinate enroute to kiddush, I asked “Do you want
seems to me an easy way out. No doubt, I’VE BEEN WANTING to share my deep to know why I choose to use the Koren
had Rabbi Sacks come to Israel, he would appreciation for your lovely issue on Rabbi Siddur?” He expressed both surprise and
certainly have been welcome to teach Lord Jonathan Sacks’ legacy. It was clear curiosity. I flipped open my copy to the page
of the Shema and explained: “Your siddur
says, ‘Listen, Israel,’ not ‘Hear O Israel.’ I said,
showing him the page. “Because listening
is an active choice, not a passive experi-
ence. I love that.” He grinned broadly and
thanked me. I remain grateful I was given
this sweet little walk-on role in the life of
this great man.
Deborah Fineblum
Writer, Jewish News Syndicate

Corrections
THANK YOU FOR a very interesting issue
(Vol. 4, No.7) concerning the history of the
Mizrachi movement. A few corrections:
In the article “Yeshivah Students at War’’
by Rabbi Shlomo Brody, he refers to Rabbi
Moshe David Glasner as being from Ger-
many. In fact, Rabbi Glasner was the Rav
of Klausenberg, which was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First
World War and part of Rumania after that
war. In his old age, Rabbi Glasner lived in

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