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What Makes A Reform Rabbi?
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The question . . . “What Makes
a Reform rabbi?" . . . is handed
me in the title of a pamphlet.
The pamphlet is from the He
brew Union College which pro
duces Reform rabbis in its schools
in Cincinnati, Los Angeles and
New York.
Well, there was a time long,
long ago when I started toward
making a Reform rabbi of my
self at the Hebrew Union Col
lege. I failed miserably, and af
ter two years in the college I
went on toward being a reporter
on a daily newspaper. After all
those years I’m still on the news
paper ... as columnist. . . where,
as I’m told, I have a much larger
congregation . . . readers, that is
. . . than I could have gathered
as Reform rabbi . . . even in a
temple as big as Emanu-El in
New York.
Indeed, had I become a rabbi
. . . say in Emanu-El . . I would
probably be retired by now, as
one just too old to keep on speak
ing to God from the handsome
altar.
On some evenings when I’m
through with the day’s writing
on the daily newspaper, I sit in
the big easy chair of our living
room and meditate upon my
many years and what I have done
with them . . . “Suppose,” I ask
myself, “I had turned out to be
a Reform rabbi after all? What
sort would I have been?”
“Well, I reply, maybe I
wouldn’t have lasted long in a
congregation; though I might
have been a most popular rabbi
in a congregation had my social
ideas been OK. Would the more
prominent members of the tem
ple have stood for Rabbi Segal
if his Sabbath services spoke up
regularly for social justice in the
world . . if he spoke for bringing
God down to the earth as kins
man of all the people, to make it
good for us all ... if Segal had
counted as his brother the guy
in the foul section of the city
called the shim.
Yes, this Rabbi Segal mightn’t
have been even socially accept
able in his congregation .. among
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the loftier members, that is . . .
because he didn’t care to play
golf. When he might have been at
golf rather, he was busy that day
in a meeting of the Better Hous
ing League, or he was busy try
ing to find a job for a father—
non Jewish—who had three chil
dren and was about to lose his
three rooms for non-payment of
rent. . or he was giving a speech
for one of the more liberal politi
cal parties.
Well, all this might have
brought Segal to a crisis among
the leaders of the temple’s con
gregation. To them Rabbi Segal
didn’t seem to be one who lived
up to the way of life they ex
pected of a respectable rabbi.
They call him into a meeting.
“Rabbi,” the congregation’s
president tells him, “you haven’t
been behaving as a rabbi should
for the good of his congregation.
What will the community think
of this congregation when its
rabbi is in so many activities
which a lot of the inhabitants
don’t agree with? Rabbi, you
must change your ways. This
congregation just can’t afford to
let you go on in that radical
way.”
Then Rabbi Segal, speaks up:
"Members of the congregation,
fellow Jews: I feel, I’m behav
ing as a good Jew should and,
in particular as a rabbi should
... by way of knowing all peo-
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pie as kinsmen in the brother
hood of the One God. And thus
should behave not only I, as rab
bi, but also the minister of the
Protestant congregation up the
street and of the Catholic church
in the next block. Yea, my
friends, I hope to continue to
serve thus as rabbi.”
So: What happens? In time
Rabbi Segal is out of this pulpit
... to give way to another one
who the congregation directors
feel will go their way ns rabbi.
Segal, it seemed to the men
of the congregation, just didn’t
know how to behave respectably
as proper rabbL
That, I suppose, would have
been the story of my rabbinical
career hadn’t I been practically
pushed out of the Hebrew Union
College for being a rather dumb
student. Yet, reading the He
brew Union College pamphlet . .
“What Makes a Reform Rabbi?”
I delight to discover in H that
the college has high hopes for its
students . . . toward their becom
ing rabbis who know their func
tion as leaders in the brother
hood of all men.
The pamphlet asks: “Why did
Reform rabbis decide to become
Reform rabbis? Sometimes dur
ing their high school or college
years, they felt the desire to dedi
cate their lives to service; they
began to realize that religion can
of human beings and of intellect
ual freedom.”
And this: “Through the courses
(at Hebrew Union College) in
human relations, the student rab
bi’s understanding of liliilldlf
and of (be needs of human be
ings deepens and broadens ...
Through personal service to hos
pital patients, the aged and the
chronically ill, the student rabbi
applies what he has learned."
Well, I hope all the Hettfs#
Union College students will make
the Reform rabbinate and NUl
get into congregations which ap
preciate the higher function at
rabbis ... to come down from
their high pulpits and to Walk
serviceably Upon the earth -. . .
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