My Student, My Friend… Gets Married!
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
This coming May will mark 13 years since my ordination as a Rabbi at The Jewish Theological Seminary. I keep thinking it is like becoming a Bar Mitzvah all over again, and I find myself constantly repeating a mantra that I share with Bar and Bat Mitzvah youngsters almost every Shabbat: “This is the beginning… not the end!”
It is an ironic comparison because just like a Bar or Bat Mitzvah feels he/she has worked so hard in preparing to be able to chant The Haftarah or to read from The Torah, I also feel that these first 13 years since I became a Rabbi have been nothing more than intense preparation for what is yet to come.
Today I find myself reflecting on this because I just officiated over a very special wedding in Providence, RI. (more…)
