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Rabbi Ending Long Hitch in Military
Lapp was 9 when his family arrived in the United States. He went on to study political science and religious education at Yeshiva University and was ordained at the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1957. He studied chaplaincy at the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
The Lowdown on Ritual and Worship
\”Why are Rosh Hashanah and especially Yom Kippur so important to my Jewish partner? He almost never attends services the rest of the year, isn\’t observant and doesn\’t even know what he believes about God. Yet, at this time of year, he insists on attending services. What\’s the big deal with these holidays?\”
There are both \”official\” and \”unofficial\” answers to these questions. Perhaps not surprisingly, the unofficial explanations are often the more significant ones. The official answers (to which I\’ll return shortly) speak in terms like judgment, sin, repentance, life and death. The unofficial answers have something to do with the complicated puzzle of American Jewish identity.
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Dear Rabbi, a column where readers ask questions and the rabbi answers.
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I have been taking on new mitzvot throughout the past years. I have begun wearing tzitzit regularly and have been working at becoming stricter concerning Shabbat.
Is Observance Fanaticism?
Although I was raised Jewish, attended Hebrew school and became a bar mitzvah, my family was not particularly observant. At some point, my father — the grandson of Orthodox rabbis — became less and less involved in Jewish life, except during holidays and yahrtzeits.
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