Emes Ve-Emunah: Soooo... This is is Peerim

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Soooo... This is is Peerim

Me as Bachur in Lakewood during Mincha

It’s Purim. (Pronounced Peerim in Mamme Looshin.) Here's my story. It’s sad but true. It’s about a girl that I once knew....

NO... Wait! That’s an embarrassing story for another time. Inappropriate for Peerim. $o...Never mind.

Back to reality. I went to $heel this morning in costume and my $hviger’s brother-in-law’s uncle on his mother side from a 3^rd marriage recorded me saying Burich SheUmar.

I have decided to take advantage of this video in honor of the holiest day of the year. $econd only to Yom Keeper.

$o, I am going to share my squirrely Peerim costume with my beloved readers.

And thanks to Shloimie Farquhar Moltovcocktailinovascotianovitch ( a fourth generation Bostonian) for allowing me to share his video of me in costume with my readers. I love you like you were my own mother- in-law, man! No malarkey. (But you already know that.)

Anyhooo this is it. (And as always - thank you all for your $upport. It means a lot to me.)

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My outlook on Judaism is based mostly on the teachings of my primary Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik from whom I received my rabbinic ordination. It is also based on a search for spiritual truth. Among the various sources that put me on the right path, two great philosophic works stand out: “Halakhic Man” and “Lonely Man of Faith” authored by the pre-eminent Jewish philosopher and theologian, Rabbi, Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Of great significance is Rabbi, Dr. Norman Lamm's conceptualization and models of Torah U’Mada and Dr. Eliezer Berkovits who introduced me to the world of philosophic thought. Among my early influences were two pioneers of American Elementary Torah Chinuch, Rabbis Shmuel Kaufman and Yaakov Levi. The Yeshivos I attended were Yeshivas Telshe for early high school and more significantly, the Hebrew Theological College where for a period of ten years, my Rebbeim included such great Rabbinic figures as Rabbis Mordechai Rogov, Shmaryahu Meltzer, Yaakov Perlow, Herzl Kaplan, and Selig Starr. I also attended Roosevelt University where I received my Bachelor's Degree - majoring in Psychology.