Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City

We are born

“We are born as part of a great and wonderful universe which is working out a dramatic story in which we may play a role. We are born to ask the question, “what is my task? What is my duty?”

-Rabbi Levi A. Olan. From “The Book of Lamentations – The Unyielding Believer,” broadcast February 17, 1963.

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