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		<title>What Is God?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently received the following request on a rabbis&#8217; listserv: If you&#8217;d like to be included in the book, I&#8217;d invite you to submit an essay of up to 500 words explaining your God concept. I am especially interested in the following: (Don&#8217;t feel you have to answer them all) - Do you believe God either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dvar Torah on &#8220;How to Write a Dvar Torah&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another sermon. Delivered on Shabbat Toldot, 28 Nov 2008 //Introduce special guests attending this morning// So. Today I am a guest too. I&#8217;m the guest sermonizer. I am the guest giver of the D&#8217;var Torah. Can I ask you all a question? I just did. I have a question to ask you all. Have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Yet another DT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what strange karmic vibration has been unleashed in recent weeks, but after not being invited to do the D&#8217;var Torah thing for mucho moon, suddenly the requests have been inundating. Here&#8217;s my most recent for Parshat Va&#8217;eyra: This is my visual aid. (said while taping 4 pieces of paper to the lecturn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Another Sermon: Parshat Toldot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About once every 2 or 3 years, one of my local rabbinic colleagues asks me to be rent-a-rabbi on Shabbat morning when he or she is otherwise engaged. Here&#8217;s my most recent: &#8220;This is the saga of Ytzkhak ben Avraham. Avraham sired Yitzhak.&#8221; So begins our Torah for this Shabbat. Now when I was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Barukh Ata Adonai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The English translation of practically every Jewish liturgy ever published renders &#8220;Barukh ata Adonai, Eloheynu, melekh ha-olam, asher kidshanu b&#8217;mitzvotav, v&#8217;tzvivanu&#8221; as &#8220;Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who sanctifies us with his commandments and commands us&#8230;&#8221; Then as feminist conscious and women rabbis and teachers emerged, we emended that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Defrocked Rabbi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbis do not really get defrocked, but some are unsuited.  I'm sure you've know a few.

I thought I was suited quite well, thank you, but as we Jews say, "Humans plan and God laughs."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=2</link>
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		<title>So What&#8217;s the Whole Story?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back somewhere around 1996 or &#8217;97 I wrote the story of how I went from being a functional working rabbi to my current &#8220;defrocked&#8221; state. It was published in The CCAR Journal in 1999. The CCAR is the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the organization of Reform rabbis, of which I am still a member. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>The Choreography of Davvenology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Jewish prayer &#8212; davennen &#8212; is done with a few dance steps. This bit of choreography involves certain place in the daily prayer where you bow, where you take a few baby steps forward or backward, where you rise on to your tiptoes. And a rhythmic swaying &#8212; shukkling &#8212; where the body joins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Dog Rabbis and Cat Rabbis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget about Reform, Conservative or Orthodox. Rabbis really come in two flavors: dog and cat. Both dogs and cats are wonderful pets. But they differ from one another. Dogs are loving and loyal. When you return home, your dog does not care if you are Charles Manson or Mahatma Gandi. The dog will wag its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=19</link>
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		<title>So Where Has Defrocked Rabbi Been and What Happened with the Haggadah?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been six months since this space has changed. Back then the energy and creativity that might have gone to keep this space fresh and worth returning to was focused onto Internet Haggadah. In case you haven&#8217;t yet read the posts below, this was a project I began several years ago: creating a Passover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.defrockedrabbi.com/?p=20</link>
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