“Love is present when a person cares for another, believes faithfully in another, and feels impelled to give to another without asking anything in return.”
– Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “Marriages Are Made In Heaven,” broadcast November 30, 1969
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Love is present
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Marriages Are Made in Heaven
"There is a romantic notion which says that marriages are made in heaven. Certainly not all of them since some marriages seem to have been arranged in hell. The statistics are not very complimentary to heaven."
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Modern Man’s Search for Himself
“There is so much happening in our age which compels us to ask ‘But where in the world am I?’” On November 9, 1969, Rabbi Olan voiced his concerns about the loss of self in …
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One Way To Deal With Death
“When it comes to the matter of death, none of us are either wise or confident. In a profound sense death appears to make a mockery of life.” Death is a topic that both interests …
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Science – Another False Messiah
“Science is my shepherd, I shall not want.” Rabbi Olan concluded the broadcast year on April 27, 1969 with a sermon containing familiar themes.* One of these was the assertion that humans are spiritual beings …
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A Time to Speak
“There is a time when we must speak, when to remain silent is immoral.“ Radio listeners in the DFW area who tuned in to the Temple Emanu-El Program on Sunday, December 7, 1969, heard Rabbi …
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The Ideal Religious Person
“If you would answer for yourself the question ‘Am I a religious person?’ then, measure your life by the standards of Biblical picture of an ideal religious person, Moses.” The 1960s was a decade of …
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People Who See God
“Is it possible in this day of reason and science for anyone to say that he [sic] saw God?” In his March 2, 1969 radio sermon, Rabbi Levi Olan taught that seeing is more than …
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The simple fact
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We Need to the Heard
“Much of the anxiety which characterizes our lives today derives from the fact that we have nobody to listen to us, to hear us. We speak but are not heard.” If you read this short …
Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City 