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is kind of like the Super Bowl
of the Jewish calendar...
:50:06
most rabbis try to cram
a whole year's...
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worth of sermons into one
kind of big "best of" sermon.
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Um, I'm not gonna do that tonight.
:50:19
I'm not gonna talk about
the meaning of God...
:50:21
or the situation in Israel...
:50:24
or the status of Jews
around the world.
:50:27
I'm-- I'd like to talk about something
a little more personal.
:50:31
I'd like to talk about us.
:50:34
The status of you and me.
:50:39
A wise man once told me
that no rabbi can save anyone.
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He can only offer himself as a guide
to other fearful people.
:50:53
We live in a really complex world...
:50:56
a world where boundaries
and definitions are blurring...
:50:59
and bleeding into each other
in ways that--
:51:02
that I think challenge us
not just as Jews but as human beings.
:51:08
And for a while now,
you've let me be your guide.
:51:12
You've, uh--
:51:15
You've shared your lives with me.
:51:18
You've explored your faith with me...
:51:20
in ways that I know sometimes
have seemed a little strange...
:51:24
and, and maybe
even a little scary...
:51:27
but you put your trust in me...
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and over the past few months...
:51:34
I have been violating that trust.
:51:38
I've been violating it because I haven't
been sharing my life with you.
:51:43
For a number of months, I've been
seeing a woman who isn't Jewish.
:51:52
It doesn't matter if I'm still with her,
which I'm not, or if I still love her,
which I do, very much.
:51:56
What matters is that I shouldn't have
been afraid to discuss it with you.