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Meir Soloveichik

American Clergyman

Born: Jul 29, 1977

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How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah. Meir Soloveichik

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. Meir Soloveichik

Love Marriage First About Continuity Foremost Transmission

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. Meir Soloveichik

Love God Love Is Humanity Reflection Our Our Love His Created Image

Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality. Meir Soloveichik

Home Will Nothing Immortality Joined Parties Source Contracting Than Just Establishing Loving Groom Less Bride Companions Beloved Two

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God. Meir Soloveichik

God Will Focus Jews Torah Embodied Embodiment Christians

We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. Meir Soloveichik

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I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much. Meir Soloveichik

Day Will Out Dream Stick Continue Much

Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought. Meir Soloveichik

Truth Disagree Jews About Sought Even Belief United Profoundly Christians

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism. Meir Soloveichik

Totalitarianism Society Scale Comradeship Also Self-Interest Largest

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people. Meir Soloveichik

God History People Example Nation Ancient Would Abraham Abraham Lincoln Only Inspired Had He Almost Call Course Because Lincoln Covenant Role America Chosen Believed Play

In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. Meir Soloveichik

Success Great Political Political Power Power Jews Appropriate Unparalleled Degrees Both Economic Freedoms Israel America Achieved Experienced

The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges. Meir Soloveichik

Bible Man First Practice Young Sold Charges Brothers He Joseph First Appearance Shaving Makes His False Imprisoned Subsequently Egypt Where Story Young Man Who Connection Appearance Slavery

By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them. Meir Soloveichik

Bible Youth Song Will Hair Young Jews Fathers Those Destroy Must Seeking Reminds Come Forbidding Encouraging Siren Forever Did Just After Eternal Eternal Youth Them Ground Who Prepare Grow Away

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. Meir Soloveichik

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light. Meir Soloveichik

Faith Light Christianity Jews Dramatic See Mormonism Deviation Same Christians

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. Meir Soloveichik

History Honored Distinguished Some Most Am Israel Been Preached America Where Asked Congregation Serve Incomparable Deeply Humbled

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change. Meir Soloveichik

Life Change Generation Experience Own Dramatic Everyone Generous Perhaps Judging Overly His Capable Belief Based

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty. Meir Soloveichik

Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding? Meir Soloveichik

God Forgiveness People Achieve Believe Jewish People Sign Temple Only Potential Could Had He Taken Clearer Merit Know Himself Without Were Continue Ultimately Any Them Pains Even Rebuilding Beloved Jewish

Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution. Meir Soloveichik

Constitution Sunday Few Christian Heritage Religious Attend Longer Continent Refer Refused Union Europe European European Union Europeans Services Recently

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