“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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The Ideal Religious Person
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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 …
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No Messiah, Please
“The days in which we live lend themselves to the appearance of a Messiah.” Rabbi Olan’s sermon “No Messiah, Please,” aired on WFAA and KRLD on January 19, 1969, just one day before the inauguration …
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Getting Rid of Our Guilts
“Guilt, it appears, festers and grows until it dominates our lives with fear and trembling.” I have heard it said jokingly that guilt is the gift that keeps on giving. Without using these exact words, …
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The good life
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We Have Been There Before
“‘We live in a decadent age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They inhabit taverns and have no self-control.’ This sounds very contemporary. It was inscribed on an Egyptian …
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What Our Children Can Inherit From Us
Rabbi Levi Olan’s December 1, 1968 radio sermon was one of several that he preached on the topic of parenting. Speaking to parents (and perhaps grandparents), his question of the day was what can our …
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You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
“The paradox of our existence is that we must lose our selves in something outside ourselves in order to experience our real selves.” November 24, 1968 The full title of this sermon could be “You …
Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City 