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Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City

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  • Religion–The Experience of Life’s Wholeness

    Posted by allerona97 on January 22, 2023

    “Men and women today live in an imbalance.  Our emphasis is upon the practical, the rational, the logical.  We are alien to the world which can be known only by experience, by feeling….  There is …

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  • The Moon and I

    Posted by allerona97 on January 16, 2023

    “The phenomenal achievement of the human mind exhibited in the journey to the moon illuminates in shining brightness the sickness of the human condition.” On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to …

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  • Science – Another False Messiah

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on January 9, 2023January 8, 2023

    “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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  • Modern Man’s Need for Prayer

    Posted by allerona97 on December 26, 2022December 24, 2022

    “Can prayer have any meaning at all for a modern person?  If it cannot ask God to set aside the laws of nature and perform a miracle, and if it is not aimed at changing …

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  • A Time to Speak

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on December 19, 2022

    “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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  • On Being Given Another Chance

    Posted by allerona97 on December 12, 2022

    “If we could live our lives all over again, what changes would we make?  How differently would we do things from what we did in the past?” December 28, 1969 found Rabbi Olan in a …

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  • War Is Always Immoral

    Posted by allerona97 on December 5, 2022December 4, 2022

    “If there is no justice, there can be no peace.” In this sermon, Rabbi Olan wrestles with an intractable problem: he believes that all wars are immoral, but that some wars are also just or …

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  • The Ideal Religious Person

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on November 29, 2022

    “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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  • To Live With a Mission

    Posted by allerona97 on November 21, 2022November 20, 2022

    “Those who know their mission and work earnestly to fulfill it are really alive.” In this sermon, delivered on March 16, 1969, Rabbi Olan, the preacher, turns preaching on its head, and says that it …

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  • Each [person]

    “Each [person], as each nation, is born to be a light unto the world.”

    – Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “To Live With a Mission,” broadcast March 16, 1969

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