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Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City

Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City

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  • Beware of False Messiahs

    Posted by allerona97 on April 4, 2022April 2, 2022

    “There is no easy road to the Promised Land. There is no way of avoiding the wilderness of suffering and endurance in our journey towards the better life. No one can relieve us of our …

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  • God Is Real

    Posted by allerona97 on March 28, 2022March 28, 2022

    “I am going to talk to you today about God.” In many of his sermons, Rabbi Olan talked about atheism and belief in God. In this sermon, delivered on February 11, 1968, he placed belief …

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  • The Man With an Alibi

    Posted by conscienceofthecity on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

    “To be human is to be personally responsible for a good measure of one’s life.” On February 4, 1968 Rabbi Olan returned to a theme that he preached many times: the reciprocal relationship between freedom …

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  • Dictatorships, responsibility, liberty

    “Dictatorships relieve men of all responsibility and at the same time take from them their liberties.”

    – Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “The Man With an Alibi,” broadcast February 4, 1968.

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    March 20, 2022May 5, 2022
  • If There Is No God

    Posted by allerona97 on March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

    “We are what others want us to be. We make ourselves up attractively to appeal to the current market. What we really are, as persons with individual ideas, ethical values and tastes is submerged in …

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  • On Rejecting our Fathers

    Posted by allerona97 on March 7, 2022March 6, 2022

    “We are unwise when we reject those stones which are the chief corner-stone of our tradition.“ In this sermon, delivered on January 21, 1968, Rabbi Olan challenges us and himself to answer the question, how …

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  • On Hanging a New Calendar

    Posted by allerona97 on February 28, 2022February 28, 2022

    “As we hang the new calendar for the year 1968, the prognosis is not a cheerful one.” Rabbi Olan’s foresight was correct. 1968 turned out to be a year of conflict and calamity. He could …

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  • Building God’s kingdom

    “Man is a co-worker with God in the building of His kingdom on earth.”

    – Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “Two Holidays–Two Religions”, broadcast January 7, 1968

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    February 21, 2022February 20, 2022
  • “Two Holidays–Two Religions”

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

    In addition to being a courageous fighter for social justice, Rabbi Olan was also one of the leading theologians of Reform Judaism.  It is in that role that we see him in this sermon, delivered …

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  • What It Takes to Live in Peace

    Posted by allerona97 on February 14, 2022February 13, 2022

    “The television camera brings into my home a close-up of a boy blown apart, bleeding, his face twisted in agony. Television has brought that boy into my home, he sits at my table, he stands …

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