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Rabbi David Wolpe

David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi at Sinai Temple. His most recent book is “David: The Divided Heart” (Yale University Press).

A funeral for Richard Lakin

\”I want to thank him for teaching me how to ride a bike. And for watching Charlotte\’s Web with me over and over again.\” The granddaughter of the gentle man lying on a bier, shrouded in his tallit, began to weep.

Wolpe on the murder of teens: Don’t say ‘BUT’

Please, please don’t say ‘but.’ The words after ‘but’ invalidate everything that comes before – 
“He’s a nice person, but he does steal from the company.” You see? “But” is a meaning duster, sweeping all that precedes it.

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